Description

ALTON ALTON PRIORS
SU 16 SW
5/14 Barn at Alto Priors Farm

GV II

Barn and smithy, now workshop. Early C19. Timber framed and
weatherboarding, with slate roof. Seven bays, with aisles, the
centre threshing bay wider. Aisle posts on dwarf brick walls, some
repaired. Curved braces to arcade plates and to heavy tie beams.
Small struts to principal rafters, and collars. Outer posts to the
narrow aisle jowled. In penultimate western bay a freestanding
brick forge with two hearths, the aisle bays fitted with work
benches. Bellows, quenching tanks, anvil and blacksmiths' tools
all present, also two hand operated vertical drills. Eastern bays
divided off as engineering workshop.

Listing NGR: SU1103562303

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26646463

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]