Description

NORTH MOLTON
SS 7229-7329
18/126 Barn and adjoining farmbuilding
- approximately 5 metres to west of
West Park Farmhouse
GV II
Barn and adjoining farmbuildings. Mid to late C19 with addition of c.1900.
Uncoursed stone rubble with gable-ended Welsh-slate roof, hipped over corner. Circa
1900 addition with red-brick dressings.
Plan: L-plan, consisting of range of shippons facing farmyard to south with barn
returning at right angles to rear of left-hand end. Circa 1900 stable with loft
above adjoining right-hand end. Two-storey shippon range.
Exterior: Left-hand range has loft openings with wooden lintels and ground-floor
windows and boarded doors with segmental stone-arched heads. Large boarded doors
off-centre to left. Two blocked doorways. Later addition to right has central
gabled semi dormer with boarded loft door and ground-floor 2-light window and 2
boarded doors, all with segmental brick-arched heads. Barn has cart entrance to west
with pair of sliding boarded doors, dressed-stone flat-arched head and shallow porch
with flanking projecting walls and eaves extended over. Boarded door to right with
stone flat-arched head. Small windows in apices of gable ends. Boarded door to
rear, opposite cart entrance. Former waterwheel pit at rear of right-hand end of
barn, with lean-to wheel house (wheel removed).
Interior of barn: six-bay C19 roof with bolted king-post trusses and pairs of
purlins. Some machinery formerly associated with waterwheel still remains, including
line shafting and belts. This is one of a small group of barns in the area which
formerly had water-driven threshing machinery (c.f. Flitton Barton).

Listing NGR: SS7243429875

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26509023

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)