Description

TQ 29 NW POTTERS BAR WROThAM PARK, BARNET Central range at 8/271 Wrotham Park Home farm, including barn, engine house, chimney, shelter shed and building facing on to rear yard

II GV

Range of farm buildings. 1850s, of different builds, with datestones of 1854 and 1856; for Lord Enfield. Red brick in Flemish bond; Welsh slate roofs. 5-bay barn with loft has a lower building attached at each end, that to west being the engine house; the 4-bay engine house has a chimney on south side and attached link-building projecting southwards to join 7-bay shelter shed; on west side of link-building is attached 7-bay building, formerly with carpenters' shop, which faces into rear yard. Chamfered plinths and eaves; brick kneelers to raised verges with brick coping. Openings have chamfered surrounds, the original windows small-paned with wooded mullions. Board doors and shutters. Barn: bays defined by pilasters linked by cogged, stepped, eaves band; opposed central cart entries with sliding doors (now of corrugated iron); on south side outer bays have a shuttered opening to each floor, those to loft 2-centred-arched; opening to each gable below dripmould, that at west gable louvred, that at east gable with 2-light window. Engine house has openings on north side: left bay originally open with later brick and weatherboard infill and door; to right a door flanked by windows, the right window blind. Chimney: approximately 10 m high; square base broached to circular shaft with stepped chamfered base, and stepped cogged band below rendered cornice. Shelter shed, open on east side has arch-braced timber posts on chamfered padstones Building facing onto rear yard has projecting gabled end bays, that on left with 3-light window, that on right with 2-centred-arched doorway and datestone; between them is central door with 2-light windows to left and replacement windows to right, all openings with gauged brick arches. Interiors: roof trusses have iron king posts, wooden angle braces and tie-beams; trenched or butt purlins. Barn has overhead shafts and cogs from former machinery worked by the beam engine which survives in the engine house.

Listing NGR: TQ2469498643

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)