Description

TQ 64 SW CAPEL CHURCH LANE

5/241 Barn approx 20m east of Church
Farmhouse

GV II

Barn. Probably C17 origins, much mended and partly rebuilt in the early/mid
C19. Timber-framed and clad with weatherboarding built on low footings,
mostly red brick but the east wall has a sandstone plinth; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Threshing barn on a rough north south axis. Opposing full height
double doorways onto the threshing floor south of centre. The barn is built
across a slope. The western doorway, towards Church Farmhouse (q.v.), is
level with the ground but the eastern one is higher to facilitate loading
directly from a cart. C19 lean-to outshot on south end.

Exterior: Both long sides have full height double plank doors. Smaller plank
door alongside to left on western side and another similar to the outshot on
the same side. Also high on west side to right is a small gabled dovecote.
Roof is half-hipped to left (north) and hipped to right and continued over the
outshot.

Interior: Barn is open to the roof. Its 4-bay frame is a mixture of C17 and
C19 work. Both main doorways are full bay width and the wall posts each side
are C19 wall posts. Most of the other main posts appear to be C17 and so too
is some of the lower tier of framing. Most however is C19 and has straight
tension braces. Many timbers are clearly reused. The tie-beams could be C17.
The trusses however sit alongside rather than on top of the tie beams; A-
frames with clasped purlins and small straight windbraces. Each side of the
threshing floor are low framed walls lined with planks and including large
raking braces to the wall posts.

This barn forms part of an attractive group of buildings in the vicinity of
the Church of St Thomas A Becket (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ6377844482

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26543281

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)