Description

SO 72 NW NEWENT TEWKESBURY ROAD
(south side)

3/178 Barn, and Engine House,
Carswalls Manor

II

Barn and engine house: late C18 or early C19; late C19 or early
C20 engine house. Ashlar plinth, English garden wall bond
brickwork, tiled roof. Engine house weatherboarding on timber
frame, brick plinth, corrugated-iron roof. 8 bay barn, 2
threshing floors: loft inserted at engine-house end: engine house
projects from gable. Elevation to rick yard: 2 pairs double
boarded doors, cambered brick arch: doors begin a little way up
for lift. Between and at ends 2 semi-circular headed large
recesses, brick grille (every fourth course alternate header and
void). On extreme left low down 2-light shuttered window,
cambered brick arch. Dentil eaves. On left low engine house,
plain side wall, ridge ventilator to left half, wide, flat-headed
doorway in gable left return. Left return to barn, 2 slit
openings with brick arches over to engine house for belting to
shafting; boarded door, cambered brick arch, shuttered window on
left. Above slit air-vents either side: boarded door slightly
left of centre, circular cat hole, cambered brick arch. Below
remains of timber platform, stairs missing, above lean-to
corrugated-iron roof. Three slit air-vents in gable. On cow
yard side stone hinge blocks to barn doors, small doors cut in one
of large.
Interior: internal buttresses to carry trusses. Originally low
walls with timber cap each side of threshing floor, removed save at
left end, door cut, ramp down to lower floor at end; loft
inserted with 2 cast-iron pillars; shafting for driving barn
machinery. Queen strut trusses to threshing floors, king post
between, 2 pairs butt purlins, plank ridge, long windbraces wall
plate to truss, cutting rafters. Lean-to on rick yard side not of
special interest.

Listing NGR: SO7423627082

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26591764

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)