Description

LATHOM

SD40NE SPA LANE
663-1/5/78 (North side)
Barn approx. 30m N of Spa Farmhouse

GV II

Barn with attached stable and cartshed. Probably mid to later
C18; with additions probably mid C19; altered.
Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins (except the additions),
stone slate roof.
The main range is 5 bays on an east-west axis with a
continuous outshut to the rear, slit-breathers in the other
walls (mostly blocked), a cartshed added to the front of the 2
bays to the left and a stable-block added to the front of the
2 right-hand bays.
The gap between these additions is bridged by a wide pitched
roof with an integral wooden pigeon loft, and serves as a wide
porch to a large basket-arched waggon doorway which has a
keystone and double board doors.
The 2-bay addition to the left, under a catslide roof, has a
stable door and a ventilated window to the 1st bay and an open
2nd bay.
The stable-block to the right is 2-storeyed, on a parallel
axis, and has a loading door in the re-entrant wall close to
the main range, and an altered doorway and windows in the
opposite (outer) side wall.
The rear outshut, under a catslide roof, has a low
segmental-arched waggon doorway in the centre, with double
board doors, loose-boxes at both ends with stable doors and
ex-situ 2-light double-chamfered mullioned windows under the
eaves (that to the right lacking the mullion and that to the
left blocked), and ventilated windows to the intermediate
bays.
INTERIOR: pegged kingpost roof trusses with fishbone struts, 2
pairs of chamfered purlins; altered loft to east end; rear
partition walls of random rubble. Forms group with Spa
Farmhouse. (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4637907884

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491167

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)