Description

UPPER HEYFORD CHURCH WALK
SP42NE (West side)
2/140 Tithe barn approx. 30m S of
26/11/51 Manor Farmhouse
(Formerly listed as Barn at
Manor Farm)
GV I

Tithe barn. Probably c.1400 for New College, Oxford. Limestone rubble with
ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roof. 9-bay plan with porches to bays 3 and
7 and low opposed doors to rear. Walls rise from a chamfered plinth and have
stepped buttresses marking the bays and in the centre of the gable walls; the
front angle buttresses are set diagonally but the rear buttresses are all in the
same alignment. There are numerous scattered square vents, plus 3 tall slits in
the gable walls; both main gables have stone parapets, but the porch gables are
weatherboarded. Interior: The slits are deeply splayed below shallow chamfered
rear arches. The roof trusses are of raised-cruck form with paired heavy curved
principals morticed into an apex saddle, and with 2 collars, plus solid curved
braces below the lower collar. The 2 rows of purlins are trenched into the backs
of the principals and there is a ridge piece carried on the saddles. Several
curved windbraces, originally in 2 rows, survive as do many old rafters. The
roof structure and some details of the masonry resemble the Tithe Barn at
Swalcliffe, also built for New College c.1400. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
(VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p196; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p820; R.B.
Wood-Jones, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963, p20)

Listing NGR: SP4944425812

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17528199

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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