Description

WITHERIDGE
SS 81 NW
5/119 Range of farmbuildings to farmyard
- of Newhouse Farm
GV II
Range of farmbuildings. One barn is C18, the remainder of the buildings were-
erected in the early or mid C19. Rubble, barn of cob, brick dressings, hipped and
gabled slate roofs.
Plan: two yards enclosed by farmbuildings on 2 and 3 sides; the lower yard with
stables on 2 sides, the other 2 sides of the yard enclosed by a curving section of
wail bounding the roadside; large carriageway through left range gives onto the
frontage of Newhouse Farmhouse (q.v). The higher yard surrounded on 3 sides with
ranges of buildings including a barn and animal shelters, the yard itself of 2
levels, the higher part supported by a very high retaining wall of rubble, further
section of wall bounding the roadside, throughway in west range with a hay-loft
over.
Exteriors: with cambered head openings to lower yard including windows and
doorways, brick voussoirs, on ground floor 3 casements with glazing bars and small
panes, 2 with iron protecting bars at ground floor level. Door openings with plank
doors, hay-loft openings which are set under the eaves. The higher yard with the
C18 cob barn with central pair of large plank doors with lean-to porch with rubble
sides, to left of front a small projecting wooden pigeon loft with 16 holes for
birds; also on the front 2 projecting buttresses; animal shelters with narrow brick
dressed piers, behind the shelters in the higher yard a further large barn, also a
5-bay carriage shed, 3 doorways with plank doors.

Listing NGR: SS8005915565

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611060

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)