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SX85NE LONG ROAD, Lower Yalberton 1947-1/3/183 (South side) 10/01/75 W, E and N ranges of farm buildings to W farmyard at Lower Yalberton Farm (Formerly Listed as: LONG ROAD, Lower Yalberton Barn and outbuilding block of Lower Yalberton Farmhouse to west)

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3 ranges of farmbuildings to lower (west) yard at Lower Yalberton farm. c1830s, contemporary with the farmhouse. MATERIALS: Local grey limestone rubble with gabled slate roofs. PLAN: Part of a planned farmyard, The W range is a lofted shippon. The N range, fronting the road, has a shippon facing the yard and a loft over, with first-floor access from Long Road, The E range divides the lower and higher yards. On the lower side, facing W, it contains a shippon. The loft above is on the level of the upper yard with access from the yard, and was used as a threshing barn, served by a horse-engine house on the N side. Fodder threshed and stored in the E and N ranges could be pushed down into the yard from the higher levels of the N and E ranges. EXTERIOR: The W range has 4 segmental-headed shippon entrances facing the yard with slatted doors and a single loft doorway flanked by ventilation slits. The N range has 6 similar doorways to the yard and Long Road at loft level. The E range has 4 shippon entrances facing the yard, one loft door and ventilation slits. The right-return has a doorway and the rear elevation, facing the higher yard, has a segmental-headed threshing doorway with paired doors and a smaller doorway alongside. At the Long Road end a horse-engine house with a canted end adjoins the range. INTERIOR: Only partially inspected. The W range has scissor bracing to the loft joists; the N range has a king post and strut roof.

Listing NGR: SX8632458612

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• Wikidata Q26585743

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