Description

WEST ALVINGTON
SX 74 SW
Linham Barn
5/205
II

Field barn, comprising barn and shippon. Late C181early C19.
Roughly coursed slatestone rubble walls with dressed quoins and
voussoirs over openings; slate roof with corbelled kneelers and
slate copings. Barn has threshing floor to left of centre, with
outshut to right; shippon attached further down slope to left
with rear outshut. Slate canopy over flat stone arch to threshing
bay. Segmental stone arch over small winnowing door to rear.
Timber lintel over loft door to right gable, Shippon has plank
loft door above segmental-arched door; 2 doorways to rear
outshut. Interior: softwood scissor-braced roof to barn, which
has grease horn recess to left of entrance and draft-beam pockets
above threshing floor; late C19 drive shaft to outshut, formerly
used as engine house and now occupied by winnowing machine.
A well-crafted and good example of a South Hams field barn.

Listing NGR: SX7214443596

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553657

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)