Description

SU 83NE THURSLEY C.P. THURSLEY ROAD
Pitch Place
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Barn at Pitch Place
Farm

Former barn with stabling, later converted into residential accommodation. Late C17 or early C18 date with stable outshots of late C18 or early C19 date, with alterations of 1990 and 2002.

MATERIALS: Barn mainly timberframed clad in weatherboarding on coursed sandstone rubble plinth but lower part of eastern wall and south wall of Bargate stone rubble and stable outshots to north and east of ironstone with galleting and brick quoins. Roof of C20 tiles, half-hipped to the south, hipped over the northern outshot and with catslide over the east outshot.

PLAN: Barn of three unequal bays, initially with central cart entrances, which were moved to the south bay when stable outshots were added to the north and east. Now it comprises a living room with gallery to barn and bedrooms and kitchen to former stabling.

EXTERIOR: The west side is clad with weatherboarding and has three casement windows, a glazed door and full-height French windows in the southern cart bay. The south end wall is of stone rubble, re-constructed using original material after 1990 and with weatherboarded half-hipped gable with casement window. The east side is weatherboarded to the upper part of the south bay with a four-light French window to the height of the midrail replacing the former cart doors. The remainder of this side has a lower former stable outshot of stone rubble, now painted, with a wide former stable opening, converted circa 2002 into French windows, and a number of further casement windowss. The north side former stabling is of ironstone rubble with galleting and brick quoins with former muck door converted into a casement. The later dung enclosure, comprising a pair of partly tumbled down brick walls, attached to the north wall is not of special interest.

INTERIOR: The eastern wall of the former barn is timberframed above the midrail with a pattern of slightly curved tension braces, but below the midrail the frame was replaced by Bargate stone rubble with some galleting. The north wall of the barn was the end wall of the building before the northen outshot was added and retains the plinth and has a midrail and central post up to the tiebeam. Pre-conversion photographs show four upright posts below the midrail. The infill of one panel has been removed to form access from the former barn through to the former north outshot, and a plank door with two panels has been fixed to the eastern end. Above the midrail the infill has been removed completely, revealing two curved tension braces. Above the tiebeam are queenposts. The wallplate has either been reused or turned around and there are a series of carpenters' marks in sequence. The west wall retains the upright posts between the bays but all other parts of the frame and the stone walling below the midrail were removed in 2002. the south wall has been plastered over the stone rubble wall which was re-constructed in 1990. The roof structure is a clasped purlin roof with angled queen struts and curved tension braces to the tiebeams. The purlin to the west side of the north bay has been replaced. Most of the rafters are original but four secondary braces have been added for strengthening. The eastern outshot retains many original rafters. The northern outshot has original rafters visible and a three plank ledged door with pintle hinges. Internally a section of old weatherboarding with incised lettering has been preserved.

HISTORY:
Pitch Place Farm was at one time part of the Dye House estate. A plan drawn in 1978, when the building was still in agricutural use, shows a loose box in the northern outshot with a muck door in the north wall to pitch dung and three small loose boxes in the eastern outshot, the southern one called the donkey house. Old photographs show that prior to the 1990 rebuilding of the south wall there was a triangular stone buttress in the centre. In the 1970s and 1980s the barn was used for the occasional exhibition of artwork. In 2002, the building was converted into ancillary accommodation for Pitch Place Farm.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: A late C17 or early C18 barn, sensitively converted c2000, with attached stable outshots, retaining a significant proportion of original fabric and forming part of a farm group where the house is Grade II.

SOURCES:
Domestic Buildings Research Group Surrey. Report no. 1968 (June 1978).

Listing NGR: SU8878239087

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551745

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