Description

SW 62 SE MAWGAN-IN-MENEAGE

3/124 Barn adjoining shippon at approx
- 20m north west of Carminowe
Farmhouse

GV II

Barn with grain or fodder store over shippon. Circa 1860. Shale rubble wih dressed
granite quoins, steps, jambstones and lintels. Hipped grouted scantle slate roof.
Long rectangular plan with 2 entrances on the front (east) side facing yard and 2
pairs of opposing winnowing doors to 1st floor. Flight of steps at both front left
and rear right. No external horse engine house but this may be integral and internal
or perhaps a steam driven thresher was used.
Two storeys. Fairly regular east front with window; doorway left and doorway, window
right to 1st floor and with wide length of blind walling between. Pigeon holes under
eaves. The left hand doorway is approached by flight of steps from the left with
store under. Ground floor doorways to right of steps and to far right. Window
openings left of steps and right of 1st doorway. Slit ventilator under right hand
1st floor doorway. Original or old ledged doors windows with random glazing to
vertical glazing bars or with shutters or half shuttered.
Interior not inspected.
Carminowe was an important manor from the C13. Part of a planned group of virtually
complete farm buildings, with this, the barn, second only in importance to the
farmhouse itself but relying on the other buildings to make up the complete C19
agricultural economy.

Listing NGR: SW6647723987

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434492

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)