Description

OFFLEY HEXTON ROAD
TL 12 NW (South side)
Wellbury Park

4/86 South Barn at
- Old Wellbury

GV II

Barn. Early/mid C17. Timber frame, on brick sill plastered externally,
dark weatherboarded, with a steep pitched roof now slated. A tall,
wide-span, 3-bays barn facing N, with a low lean-to porch in middle.
Pitching doors in side bays on S side. Hollow moulded chin to jowls of
posts, long curved braces to cambered tie-beams. Mid-bay posts with
staggered mid-height rails. Similar in end gables. Long straight tension
braces from corner posts and in middle bay. Clasped-purlin roof with 2
purlins to each slope. Upper purlin carried on a high collar, lower
purlin carried on a low collar in the end gables but on inclined
queen-posts between. Face-halved bladed scarf joints in wallplates.

Listing NGR: TL1410129734

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26630560

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)