Description

TQ 74 SW MARDEN GOUDHURST ROAD
(west side)

3/51 Barn about 30
metres north-west
of Great Cheveney
House

GV II

Barn. Early C16 or earlier, with mid C17 and C19 additions. Timber
framed with mid C17 red and grey brick infilling to front (south)
elevation of C16 and C17 sections. Most of right return
weatherboarded. C19 addition red and grey brick in Flemish bond to
ground floor, weatherboarded above. Plain tile roof. C16 barn of four
timber-framed bays, with one bay added to left (west) in mid C17,
three bays added to rear to right at similar date, and two further
bays added to left in C19. C19 addition 2 storeys, on brick plinth.
Stone plinth to rest. Brick infilling divided by studs and lacing
pieces into broad irregular rectangular panels. Herringbone eaves
course. Large initial "G" worked into brick, probably for George
Maplesden, d.1688. Roof gabled to left, hipped to right, hip
returning to rear with lower ridge. Loading hatch to first floor and
broad boarded door to ground floor of C19 addition. Virtually full-
height boarded door to third timber-framed bay from right. C19 porch
to rear. Interior: C16 section has gunstock-jowled posts with short
arch braces to tie-beams, plain crown-posts with head and foot
braces, and lapped collars. C17 single bay has shaped jowls, and
clasped purlin roof with two windbraces. Tension braces to former
gable. Cut jowls, and clasped purlin roof with straight windbraces to
rear "wing". Stave, lath and daub infilling above midrail to part of
rear wall.

Listing NGR: TQ7356342278

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26628145

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)