Description

SWIMBRIDGE
SS 62 NW
11/168 Group of farmbuildings,
comprising planned farmstead with
granary, root store and straw
barn, cart sheds, shippons,
shelter sheds and stables
approximately 15 metres west of
Dinnaton Farmhouse

GV II

Group of farmbuildings, comprising planned farmstead with granary, root store and
straw barn, cart sheds, shippons, shelter sheds and stables. 1853. Stone rubble
with some brick. Slate roofs. Courtyard plan with shippons, lofted shelter sheds
and stables enclosing 2 parallel stock buildings built gable end to the cart sheds,
barn, granary and processing plant which forms the T-shaped fourth side to the top
end of the courtyard, built into the bank with cart access to the first floor to
rear. Cart sheds with loft over have 4 cambered brick arches supported on granite
pillars. Shippons on east side have 3 doorways and window openings to the
courtyard side, giving access to the lofts above the shelter sheds with 6 cambered
brick arches on the outer face. 2 doorways to stables with axial brick stack on
west side. The 2 parallel stock buildings are now bridged by a gabled corrugated
iron roof to the central passage; the range to east side has 3 doorways with
ventilation slits with the majority of its interior fittings intact. The west
range has a wide cart opening with single doorway to left and 2 doorways to right
with slightly cambered brick arches. The storage and processing end has a cambered
stone arch with loft door above at the west end and external stone steps to loft
door with 1853 datestone with Bedford crest above at east gable end. The original
gearing and some of the machinery intact. The farmstead was formerly part of the
Duke of Bedford estate.

Listing NGR: SS6205228128

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26458901

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)