Description

SO 61 NE MITCHELDEAN HIGH STREET
(west side)

6/161 'Elizabethan Barn' behind Post
office .

GV II

Store, probably late c16; random rubble stone rear wall south
gable and ground floor to churchyard wall, timber-framed with brick
on stone infill above, tiled roof. 5-bay 2 storey range, ground
floor nearly all below churchyard level. Churchyard side shows
floor nearly all 2-panel high timber-framing above, with 2 tension
braces on right in third and fourth panels, carved head of 4-light
window in second (now blocked). Brick chimney interrupts framing
in sixth panel; further to left 2 braces to wall plate from a
post. Left gable rendered over wide carriage doors to ground
floor; rear wall stone with one 2-light timber casement window,
one 3-light to first floor, and a door with external timber stairs.
Internally: originally 2 rooms with collar and tie-beam trusses
with angle struts, struts now missing. Later lime-plaster floor
inserted at tie-beam level, surviving over only 3 bays.

Listing NGR: SO6638018620

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26481762

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-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