Description

MOSTON C.P. PLANT LANE
SJ 76 SW (West Side)

6/68 Barn, shippon and
stables 30 metres east of
Moston Manor Farmhouse
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GV II

Barn, stables and shippon, circa 1690 and mid C18, of brown brick in
English garden wall bond; clay tile roof to barn (forming left wing of
2-storey U-shaped block); roof to shippon/stable replaced in cement
tiles.
Barn, probably circa 1690, has boarded doors with camber-arched heads;
large double doors to threshing floor; first floor band, raised above
threshing-door arch; blocked loophole vents to both storeys; inserted
casement to lower storey in gable; upper storey and roof-space have 2
superimposed loading doors.
Shippon/stable has boarded doors with camber-arched heads; driftway in
corner against stable wing with cambered oak lintel to yard and brick
basket-arch to rear; hopper casements under cambered heads; 2 rows of
vents in alternating diamond and split-diamond patterns.
Interiors of impressive scale with oak purlins and queen-post trusses;
broad round-arched openings in cross-walls of shippon loft. A
satisfying, large scale farm building, little altered except shippon
roof covering.

Listing NGR: SJ7244361756

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26431826

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)