Description

SW 62 SE CURY

3/4 Barn and piggery at rear of Bochym
- Manor House
GV II

Barn and piggery, partly ruinous. Barn 1850 (datestone) and other buildings probably
slightly later. Serpentine rubble walls with granite sills, lintels and voussoirs.
Gable ended or hipped scantle slate roofs; 2 gable ends with serpentine ashlar
chimneys.
Overall U-shaped plan of farm buildings enclosing rectangular yard with Bochym
Cottage qv. and its rear wing adjoining and forming east side. Principal 2-storey
bank barn forms most of west range with single-storey building at left (south) end
linked to south range with covered carriageway entrance and single storey piggery
north range of one large rectangular covered space adjoining at right-hand side of
barn front.
East front of barn, single-storey coach-house at left, otherwise 2 storeys. Barn
front was originally symmetrical with central carriage doorway, with window over,
flanked by 2 identical 3-bay fronts with central doorway with loading or winnowing
doorways over and flanking ground and first floor windows. Right-hand part now with
doors partly blocked to form windows and the 2 left-hand windows cut deeper to make
doorways. Some original latticed windows survive. The wide central barn doorway is
spanned by an elliptical arch, and the coach house, left, has similar arched doorway.
The lintel over the left-hand ground floor barn doorway has the date 1850 in raised
lettering.
These buildings are part of a substantial planned C19 group relating to Bochym Manor
House qv.

Listing NGR: SW6903420791

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434526

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)