Description

The following buildings shall be added to the list:

SWALE ELMLEY
TQ 96 NW
Elmley Marshes
4/170
Barn and adjoining cattle
shed immediately north of
Kings Hill Farmhouse

GV II

Barn and adjoining cattle shed. Circa late C18. Softwood timber frame reclad in
new weather-boards, on low plinth of stone rubble topped in English bond brick.
Slate half-hipped roof with black glazed ridge tiles. Plan: 5-bay aisled barn with
opposed entrances to threshing floor in wider central bay. Adjoining at right
angles on south east corner is a single storey 11-bay cattle shed. Exterior: At
centre of both north and south sides the wagon entrances have hipped midstrey
canopies supported on straight braces; the south entrance is blocked and has small
doorways to its left and right. Adjoining at right angles to the right (south east)
of south front a long open-fronted 11-bay cattle shed with chamfered wooden posts
on stone bases and short curved braces to the arcade plates, slate roof with gable
end boarded in and back wall of stone rubble and some flint, the top courses in
Flemish bond brick. Interior: vertically studded walls with midrails and straight
braces. Aisle-posts and arcade posts have jowled heads with hollow chamfers.
Straight braces from the arcade posts to the arcade plates and tie-beams; queen
posts and collars above with diagonally set clasped purlins. There are also inter-
mediate collars. The principal and common rafters are all intact and there is no
ridge-piece or ridgeboard. Above the aisle ties there are diagonal struts. The
cattle shed has C19 machine-sawn tie-beam trusses with queen struts and a boarded
soffit.

Listing NGR: TQ9386267985

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26535788

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair