Description

SU 92 NW LURGASHALL BLACKDOWN FARM
7/205 Main barn at Blackdown
Farm
31.7.87
- II
Barn. C17 and early C19. Squared rubble in courses with brick quoining to
openings; part of the C17 timber frame; plain tile roof, hipped with terminal
gablets. Five bays, with a single aisle under a catslide roof on the south west
side. Central stone paved threshing floor with opposing wagon entries. The C17
timber framed barn was re-walled in early C19 retaining four aisle posts and two
posts to either side of north east entry, the wall and aisle plates and the roof
framing. Angle braces to principal beams, raking struts to clasped purlins, wind
braces to purlins in several bays. In the north east wall four ventilation slits
in two rows to either side of entry, all now masked by later additions. In either
end wall two rows of three slits with a further single slit to the end walls of
the aisle in the lower row. In the south west (aisle) wall four slits to either
side of the entry. A pressed metal grille built into the brick jamb linings of
each slit. The later external additions to the barn are not included.

Listing NGR: SU9212628526

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26527541

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas