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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26626256

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990