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Barn, 17 Metres North of Chicks Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in West Coker, Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.9219 / 50°55'18"N

Longitude: -2.6837 / 2°41'1"W

OS Eastings: 352042

OS Northings: 113822

OS Grid: ST520138

Mapcode National: GBR ML.QCWM

Mapcode Global: FRA 568N.VQ8

Plus Code: 9C2VW8C8+PG

Entry Name: Barn, 17 Metres North of Chicks Farmhouse

Listing Date: 19 April 1961

Last Amended: 30 August 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1345819

English Heritage Legacy ID: 263846

ID on this website: 101345819

Location: West Coker, Somerset, BA22

County: Somerset

District: South Somerset

Civil Parish: West Coker

Built-Up Area: West Coker

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

Tagged with: Barn

Description


WEST COKER CP HIGH STREET (North side) St5213 10/288 Barn, 17 metres North of Chicks Farmhouse (formerly listed as Barn to North of Manor Farmhouse 19.4.61 GV II

Barn, possibly meant to double as a folly. Dated 1764. Local stone rubble with Ham stone dressings; corrugated asbestos cement sheet replacing thatch on main roof, with clay pantiles to extensions, coped gable to South. 2-storey in part, 9-bays. Plinthed; to East flank four 4-centre arched doorways with labels over, to bays -1, -3, -5 and -9; over bay -1 small matching doorway with label, to bay-2 a 2-light transomed 4-centre arched window with C16 style tracery, further upper doors bays-4 and -7. On West flank high doors in gabled projection bay-5, and catslide roof to lean-to buildings on either side, with variety of old plain windows and doors. At North end a 2-bay open shed with half-hipped clay pantile roof, the beam collar trusses with 3-purlins each major slope. In South gable a cinquefoil cusped pointed arch doorway above a concrete block lean-to building (this not included in listing), and in gable over oval ventilation hole and stone plaque reading 'Built in the Year 1764' Interior full of hay (August 1983) and not inspected, cider press still in position in bay-2. Some elements might be reused from Church of St. Martin of Tours (qv), where the tower was finished in 1765. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, October 1972).

Listing NGR: ST5204213822

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