Description

ELLAND ROCHDALE ROAD (OFF)
SE 097214 (north side)

1/85 Clay House Barn
15.11.77
G.V. II*

Large and magnificent C17 aisled barn. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. Of 3
or 4 bays with aisle on north east side only with a very broad gable projection to
full height of the central aisle on the south west side. The south-western elevation
has large square headed barn entry with composite jambs. The wide gable breaks forward
from the main range and has low sweeping roof to sides. Centrally placed to ground
in this gable is doorway with depressed arch with 2-light chamfered mullioned window
to left. Above are 6 arch headed ventilators with spandrels arranged pyramidally in
3 tiers. The south east (end) elevation again has large gable with low walls and long
sweeping roof and archheaded ventilators. North east elevation has a break in the
aisle with square headed barn entry at arcade-plate position. Right hand return wall
of aisle has a doorway with 4 centred head and chamfered jambs.

Interior of post and truss construction with straight braces to arcade-plate and tie
beam. Queen-strut roof, not all original.

Listing NGR: SE0977621470

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542177

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)