Description

TL 4113 HUNSDON ACORN STREET
(east side)
8/12
East Barn at Nine
Ashes Farm 15 metres
- NW of dovecote

GV II

Barn. C17, probably built for Peter Calvert after 1642 (Gibbs
(1915) 26). Wide 7-bay unaisled barn (about 27 feet) now joined
internally to earlier West Barn. Timberframed weatherboarded on
red brick plinth in English bond. Steep old red tiled roof,
half-hipped at E end. Central mid-stray. 3 bays at E converted
to a mill in C18 by insertion of a heavy floor structure on
massive square posts and runway in roof from platform
cantilevered over the mid-stray. High quality chamfered
carpentry to original structure. Jowled posts, long curved
braces to cambered tie beams. Inclined queen strut and collar
trusses with 2 butt purlins in back roofslope, the upper with
paired wind braces. Rafters tennoned into lower purlin but pass
over upper purlin. Many assembly marks on trusses. A fine early
C17 barn with added interest from its conversion at E end into a
mill with heavy C18 carpentry in softwood. Part of the
picturesque historic farm group at Nine Ashes.

Listing NGR: TL4169713254

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26594766

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living