Description

SU 83 NE FRENSHAM GREEN LANE
(South side)
Churt

3/56 Barn and attached cowhouse
approx 30 metres to east
of Butts Farmhouse

II

The entry shall be amended to read:

SU 83 NE FRENSHAM GREEN LANE
(South side)
Churt

7/56 Barn and attached cowhouse
approx 30 metres to east
of Butts Farmhouse

II

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The following building shall be added to the list:

SU 83 NE FRENSHAM GREEN LANE
(South side)
3/56 Churt

Barn and attached
cowhouse approx 30
metres to east of
Butts Farmhouse
II

Barn and attached cowhouse. Early C18 barn with addition of 1755, cowhouse
range late C18 and C19 of different builds all with later C19 alterations.
Rubblestone and timber-framed with weatherboard cladding, Welsh slate roofs.
L-shaped plan barn forming east-west range and cowhouse the north-south range.
Barn : 5 bays, the west bay added, with single aisle, on north side.
Rubblestone plinth and west end wall which has brick-dressed slit vents and
weatherboard gable. Central opposing cart-entries with double board doors,
that on north side in gabled midstrey; opposing stable doors at west end and
another at east end on north side. Small door to east end wall. Roof hipped
at east end. Interior: frame survives well, of large scantling timbers,
including sole plate, mid rail, and wall plate with angle braces from posts;
jowelled posts braced to the tie beams (some braces curved); queen strut roof
trusses with clasped through purlins, coupled rafters, no ridge-piece, later
additional rafters. Mortices in posts and soffit of tie beam of west truss
indicate position of former end wall; the added bay beyond has wall-plate
inscribed "I.R. Fecit 1755". Stalls in west end. Cowhouse range: built up
from south (barn) end. 4 bays with side outshut at north end and aisle on
east side. Rubblestone plinth with brick dressings. Side outshut has doorway
on left; bay 1 former cowhouse, has board stable door on right to through
passage; bay 2 has wide board door to through passage; bays 3 and 4
open-fronted with post between them on brick plinth and straight-braced to
wall plate; roof--half-hipped at left end. Interior: bay 1 has cobble floor to
through-passage and stalls for 6 cows with wood partitions, mangers with
tethering rings and feeding rack; bay 2 through-passage has weatherboard
partition walls, with board door into bay 1; bays 3 and 4 have continuous
wood manger on north and east sides and 2 queen strut trusses.

In state of disrepair at time of inspection. The C19 cowhouse fittings are a
rare survival.

Listing NGR: SU8584437936

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544865

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