Description

DODDINGHURST

TQ59NE CHURCH LANE
723-1/5/314 (South side)
30/09/76 Barn at junction of Doddinghurst
Road
(Formerly Listed as:
BRENTWOOD
DODDINGHURST ROAD, Doddinghurst
The Barn at the junction with Church
Lane)

II

Barn now used as offices. C17, C18 and C20. Timber-framed,
weatherboarded and rendered, peg-tiled roof hipped at N end.
Aligned N-S, now 2 storeys. E front elevation, outshut to S
with stack painted black, weatherboarding with 2 rows of
narrow C20 timber-framed lights simulating wind eyes, 7 to
ground floor and 4 to first floor. N end rendered with ground
floor range of 4 small C20 bay windows, in 2 pairs, supported
on shaped wooden brackets under a peg-tiled pentice roof with
C20 glazed door between N pair and square paned window between
S pair. Rear W elevation, S end weatherboarded with central
waggon porch, 3 upper 'wind eye' lights as on front to S.
Ground floor S-N simple C20 door with single light, 3 and 2
casement windows, glazing bars, 4x4 panes. 2 lean-tos with
peg-tiled and pantiled roofs. N lean-to and N end wall
rendered with imitation timber-framing and 2 wooden framed
casement windows each 4 x 3 panes.
INTERIOR: oak framed, 5 bays, C17. Waggon porch probably
secondary. Additional bay added on N end C18 or early C19 with
rudimentary framing in reused timber. Principal 5 bays have
stout framing primary braced. Principal frames have unjowled
posts and cranked deep arched braces to tie-beams and raking
queen struts, butt side purlins and rafters butted and jointed
to purlins. Wall plates have frequent face halved and bridled
scarf joints - always at principal frames (demonstrating
progressive contruction a bay at a time, seen in some other
C17 barns in the district). Clear chiselled carpenters'
assembly marks in Roman numerals on the members of the
principal trusses.

Listing NGR: TQ5909799031

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491743

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