Description

SP8967NW
11/29

WELLINGBOROUGH
BURYSTEAD PLACE (North side)
Tithe Barn

23/09/50

GV
II
Tithe barn, now public hall. Probably mid C15. Squared coursed and banded limestone and ironstone with thatch roof. Single-unit barn. Single storey, six bays. East elevation has five two-stage buttresses and one two-stage clasping buttress at the left hand corner. Cart entrances to bays two and five, now blocked and part-glazed, retain wood lintels over. Two pairs of triangular air holes to each bay. Ashlar gable parapet and kneelers with finial to north gable. North gable has three pairs of airholes and three slit openings in gable. South gable similar with C20 extension attached. West elevation has four buttresses with clasping buttresses at corners. Two cart entrances between buttresses, now blocked, retain wood lintel over. Two and three pairs of airholes between buttresses. Some roof timbers may remain but largely replaced mid C20. Now linked to barns immediately south of tithe barn (qv) by C20 extension.
Originally the tithe barn to Croyland Abbey (qv). Scheduled as an Ancient Monument.

Listing NGR: SP8912567744

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527298

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (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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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)