Description

SP 91 NE EDLESBOROUGH HIGH STREET

5/26 Barn at Church Farm
(formerly listed with
Dovecote)
26.9.51
- II*

Large aisled barn. C15-C16, altered. Heavy timber frame with old brick
infill, alternate bays with curved braces. Chamfered plinth, partly of
ashlar on N.W. side, remainder rebuilt in brick or flint with ashlar or
rendered capping. Gable to street rebuilt C18 in red and vitreous brick
with C20 weatherboarding to gable. Old tile roof. 10 bays. Ventilation
slits. S.W. side has irregular boarded openings. N.E. side has waggon
entry in third bay, C20 water tanks attached to fourth bay, and
mid C19 white brick ranges of outbuildings forming courtyard with far
bays. Interior: low walls of Totternhoe stone between aisle bays;
complex main trusses with curved braces to aisle tie beams, arcade plates,
tie beams and principal rafters, and curved passing braces to tie beams;
intermediate trusses with curved braces to middle purlins; roof with
triple purlins and curved wind-braces. Floor inserted in N.W. end.
SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT.
RCHM II p.109-10 Mon. 4 (part).

Listing NGR: SP9719919265

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539115

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