Description

TRING RURAL CHAPEL LANE SP 8915 (South side) Long Marston 8/123 South Barn at - Church Farm GV II Barn. C16 or earlier. Timber frame on low red brick sill (renewed), dark weatherboarding, and hipped old red tile roof. A tall 5-bays barn facing N, forming S range of farmyard. Central double doorway on N with raised eaves and rafters over. Heavy jowled posts with curved braces to wall-plate and tie-beams. Unjowled mid-bay posts and mid-height rail tenoned in-line. Squint butted scarf joint in rear wallplate. 2 purlins to each slope. Upper purlin clasped in angle of collar with undiminished principal, lower purlin clasped between principal and a parallel deep member jointed at top and bottom into underside of collar and top of tie-beam. The underside of this member is curved like an arched brace. Straight long wind-braces to upper purlin. Flat laid rafters. Small door into W end. The roof construction is unique in this part of Hertfordshire.

Listing NGR: SP8951215608

External Links

• Wikidata Q26626256

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