Description

TQ 64 SW CAPEL SYCHEM LANE, FIVE OAK GREEN

Barn approx 40m south of
5/283 Brook Farmhouse

II
GV

Barn. C17 with some C19 remodelling. Timber-framed and clad with
weatherboards; corrugated iron roof (formerly peg-tile or thatch).

Plan: Threshing barn on a north west / south east axis. It faces onto the
farmyard to the north east. It had opposing large double doorways onto the
threshing floor but the front doorway is now hidden by a secondary lean-to
outshot. The lean-to outshot on the left (north west) end, if not original,
is probably quite an early addition but the various sheds and lean-to on the
front are late C19 and C20 additions.

Exterior: Most of the front wall is hidden behind an irregular collection of
secondary additions. However the extreme right end is exposed and there is a
small doorway there containing a C19 plank door. Above the shed next to it
there is a C19 pivoting casement window with glazing bars. The main barn is
half-hipped both ends but at the left end it is carried down as a hip over the
outshot there. The rear double doorway is not full height; it is blocked and
the bay now contains a C20 window.

Interior: The barn is open to the roof. It is 4 bays. The frame is of large
scantling timbers. Some bays have large curving tension braces (a couple of
them concave) but most are replaced by narrower straight braces. The wall
posts have formed jowls and the tie-beams have straight arch braces. Roof of
clasped side purlin construction with queen struts.

Listing NGR: TQ6455944826

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545229

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)