Description

LEEK

SJ95NE ABBEY GREEN ROAD
611-1/1/7 (East side)
13/04/51 Byre and Barns at Dieu-la-Cres Abbey
Farm
(Formerly Listed as:
ABBEY GREEN
Farm buildings of Dieu-la-Cres Abbey
Farm)

GV II

Byres and barn. c1820. Incorporating stone from the C13 Abbey
of Dieu l'Acres. Coursed and squared stone with slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2-storeyed byre with 2-storeyed barn at right
angles, and single-storeyed byre range, enclosing 3 sides of a
courtyard. Byre has a series of pointed-arched doors and
windows in both elevations, some clearly assembled from abbey
ruins, others possibly cut in C19. Carved stones from abbey
used to ornament the building in a highly deliberate
decorative scheme, the ornamentation largely concentrated over
the openings, and using roof bosses, fragments of tracery,
vaulting ribs etc. Single-storeyed byre wing has similar doors
and windows in inner face, and its gable wall is ornamented
with abbey sculpture, in which a stone coffin lid forms the
centrepiece. 2-storeyed barn wing with blocked full-height
archway, windows and ventilation slits, again ornamented with
moulded capitals and roof bosses taken from abbey.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: writing in 1862, a local historian, John
Sleigh noted that at the beginning of the C19, the ruins of
the abbey 'were partially dug up and the materials used in the
erection of the stables and outbuildings of the large black
and white farmhouse adjacent.'
The buildings form a group with the E and W stable ranges of
the farm, together with the farmhouse. They represent an
important and unusual example of the re-use of early building
material in a highly deliberate aesthetic, as a kind of
antiquarianism.
(Sleigh, John: A History of the Ancient Parish of Leek: Leek:
1862-).

Listing NGR: SJ9829557855

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558954

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