Description

STOKEINTEIGNHEAD STOKE ROAD (east side),
SX 9070-9170 Stokeinteignhead
Farmbuilding immediately south of
17/412 Higher Farm Farmhouse
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GV II

Farmbuilding including a threshing barn and cartshed with reed-store over. Probably
mid/late C19. Red sandstone rubble, brought to course, grouted slate roof, hipped at
north end, gabled at east end, corrugated roof to reed-store.
Plan: Large L plan farmbuilding in the south-west corner of the farmyard south of
Higher Farm Farmhouse, the west range parallel to the Stoke Road with a cartshed with
reed-store over adjoining at the south end. The north-facing range, within the
farmyard, has a threshing floor with first floor access from the rear (south),
originally powered by a traction engine.
Exterior: Lofted. Inpressively tall. The threshing barn has large paired plank
doors to the threshing loft with stone cheeks that descend to the ground and a slated
canopy: smaller doors to left and right. Similar large doors on the south side with
stone cheeks and a porch canopy. The west range has a pentice roof on the east side
(facing into the farmyard) a central loft door and a ground floor doorway below; 2
windows to the right return (north end). The rear elevation (facing the road) has a
loft door and 1 small and 1 large ground floor doorway, both with iron lintels. The
cartshed has been adapted to take grain bins retaining the open fronted reed loft
which faces the Stoke Road.
Interior: Not inspected but threshing machine said to survive (information from
owner).
Group value with the farmhouse.

Listing NGR: SX9167470337

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26464327

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (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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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)