Description

FRANT BELLS YEW GREEN TQ 63 Nw 8/366 Barn about 40 metres east-south east of Manor Farmhouse II Barn. Probably C18. Timber framed clad in weatherboarding and with brick (random bond) plinth. Half-hipped roof, corrugated iron on north side and plain clay tiles on south side. Plan: 6-bay barn with threshing floor in third bay from the south east end and separated from the flanking bays by low partitions. Small later (probably C19) outshut at the south east end was probably stables. Exterior: The north east front has a cart entrance to left of centre and the south west front has a smaller doorway opposite to right of centre, both with boarded double doors. At the south east end the outshut has a doorway to the right and a small window immediately to its left, both with boarded doors. Interior: Timber-frame structure is complete. Close-studded walls with tension braces, staggered purlins mid-rails and posts with jowled heads. Tie-beam and queen-post trusses. Common rafter roof with no ridge-piece; straight windbraces over the threshing bay only. Over the low threshing bay partition walls there are long straight braces to the wall posts. Part of the boarded threshing floor survives.

Listing NGR: TQ6025635311

External Links

• Wikidata Q26636628

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