Description

BASCHURCH WALFORD
SJ 42 SW
15/10003 2 barns about 75m WNW
of Farm at Walford College
of Agriculture
- II
2 adjoining barns. Circa mid-late C17, extended in circa C18 and remodelled and extended in
late C19. Timber-framed partly infilled and re-clad in brick and partly faced in weatherboarding.
Slate roofs with gabled ends. PLAN: L-shaped on plan. Long range on north-south axis with
4-bay C17 timber-framed barn at north end and extended to south in brick in late C19.
Adjoining at right-angles at the north end of the west side a C17 3-bay timber-framed barn on
an east-west axis, extended by 3 bays in circa C18. EXTERIOR: The east barn on the
north-south axis has exposed timber-framing with bick infilling on its east side, the top panels
weatherboarded; the north end brick with cart entrance and loft door above; the west side is
weatherboarded timber-frame and abutting it is the weatherboarded timber-framed barn on the
east-west axis with cart entrance and brick outshut on the right [north west] in the angle of a
barn at right-angles at the west end. The late C19 brick extension at the south end of
north-south axis barn has 4-bay cartshed with segmental brick arches now infilled with windows.
INTERIOR: The north-south axis 4-bay barn has large straight tension-braces, wall-posts with
cut jowls supporting tie-beams with queen-struts to cambered collars; trenched and threaded
purlins. The east 3 bays of the east-west axis barn has similar trusses, but roughly jowled posts;
its 3-bay west extension has queen-post trusses. Common-rafters replaced in circa late C19 or
C20.

Listing NGR: SJ4334520638

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546974

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