Description

QUARLEY
SU 24 SW QUARLEY DOWN

4/14
The byre block about
20 metres north west
of Quarley Down Farm House

G.V. II

Byre/stable block. 1894. By Crickmay and Sons for H C Stephens M.P. Red
brickwork, mostly rendered externally; plain clay tiled roof with stone slate base
courses and raised ridge courses for ventilation. Single-storey. U-plan with
projecting end gables, on east-west axis. 8 bays. End bays have tall plinth, with
weatherboard cladding over with inset doors, the upper parts of the overhung gables
being tile-hung: the centre bays open above high plinth level. Pairs of sliding
doors under raked roof sections to end elevations. Inside a channelled concrete
floor; simple roof trusses with angled strut and iron rod king-post trusses:
originally the central portion of the south roof slope had continuous patent glazing.
(Signed and dated drawings of both this building and a more elaborate design in
Wiltshire Record Office, Cat No. 1894, Ser. 45m).

Listing NGR: SU2568742449

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26623666

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)