Description

SKELTON

1450/2/79 MAIN STREET
29-OCT-87 SKELTON-ON-URE
(East side)
BARN AT SE3612268232, VILLAGE FARM

(Formerly listed as:
MAIN STREET
SKELTON-ON-URE
BARN AT TURNERS FARM)

II
Barn. Mid-late C18.

Cobbles and limestone rubble in alternate courses, pantile roof, brick gables. Eight bays. Quoins. Two segmental-arched waggon entrances with quoined jambs and board doors to road side, and three rows of slit vents. Left return: three rows of five vents; right return: inserted stable doorway and window; two rows of slit vents above; blocked pitching door in gable and three tiers of slit vents.

Interior: seven trusses composed of tie-beams on internal buttresses carrying queen struts with outward angled braces supporting collar; inserted brick partition at south end, loft over.

The great size of this barn indicates an emphasis on arable farming which continued into the C19.

Sources:
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report Number 1076, 1970 and 1985.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION:
The barn at SE3612268232, Village Farm is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* This barn is of mid-late C18 date
* The building retains a number of original features
* This is a large barn, suggestive of arable farming

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542809

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide