Description

SEIGHFORD Barn 40 yards south
1.
5373 east of Village
Farmhouse
SJ 82 NE SP735
II 0/735 GV

2.
Barn and cowshed. Dated 1758, altered in C19 and C20. Red brick with internal timber-
framing to barn. Four-bay barn aligned north-west, south-east with cowshed projecting
at right angles at south end to south-west.
Through-passage threshing floor with double-boarded doors to barn at junction with
cowshed. Six rows of dove-holes, nestings and flight-perches to north-west gable
end of barn; date 1758 set out in brick below. Eight rows of ventilation holes to
side to south-west, the lower five discontinuous. Various ventilation holes to
north-west gable end. Stable with stable doors in north-west bay of barn. 3-bay
cowshed to south-east. Interior: Threshing floor flanked by trusses with jowled
wall-posts braced down to continuous cill-beams on low plinth walls. Centre post to
tie beam with queen struts to principals. Cowshed with tie beams, king post trusses
with double struts to curved principals. JEC Peters, Farm Buildings of Western
Lowland Staffordshire, Manchester, 1969, Pp 59, 69, 71, 97, 119, 176, 206, Figs 5,
30.

Listing NGR: SJ8788325113

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26563124

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)