Description

ST 76 SW SOUTH STOKE

6/213 Tithe Barn and adjoining Stable and
Dovecote and Horse Engine-House
1.2.56
II*
G.V.

Tithe barn, C15, altered C16-C17, early C19 and restored mid - late 1940's.
Coursed squared rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; stone slate roof with
coped raised verges and ball finial. Traditional plan with gabled projecting
porch to east; square headed cart entries but with a cambered lintel to the west.
Lean-to at south of porch; and projecting engine-house to north of porch, early
C19, rubble with a slate roof, semi-circular on plan at east end, now glazed with
C20 casements and doors. In the south gable end of the barn are cross loops and
putlog holes; arch-headed loft doorway in north gable end. At the south end of
the barn the late C16 - early C17 dovecote projects: coursed rubble and stone
slate roof; gabled on south and east sides with nesting box holes and perching
ledges; 2-light casement windows in ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds and
under dripmoulds; single openings in gables. Interior: 7 bays of arch-braced
collar beam trusses and 3 tiers of windbracing, all much restored; chamfered and
4-centre headed doorway on east side of porch leads to tithe office. Sawn ashlar
nesting boxes in the dovecote with stable fittings below.

Listing NGR: ST7460561224

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531656

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Devon (Pevsner 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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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)