Description

BUSCOT THE STREET
(East side)
SU2397 Barn opposite Manor
5/13 Farmhouse
II
Barn. c1870. Mass concrete walls in 2 ft courses; gable ends of
Bridgewater bricks capped with dressed stone and a gabled pantile roof lined
on the inside with tongue and groove boarding. the barn measures 60 ft x
162 ft x 12 ft 6" to eaves and its concrete walls are 1 ft 4" thick at the
base. An aisled plan inside of 10 bays with the original utilitarian frame
intact. Reputedly the earliest concrete farm building in the country.
Built at the expense of Robert Tertu is Campbell of Buscot Park as part of
his scheme to industrialize the estate for the production of sugar beet and
alcohol. Illustrated in Nigel Harvey, Old Farm Buildings, 1980, 20.

Listing NGR: SU2309197725

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26573650

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)