Description

TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN

SP17SW DOCTOR'S HILL
652-1/2/130 (East side (off))
Barn, stables and granary, with
farmyard walls at Leasowes Farm

GV II

Threshing barn, with stables and granary over and attached
farmyard walls. Barn dated 1837. Reddish-brown brick with
ashlar copings to walls, plain-tile roof to stables and
granary and corrugated asbestos to barn.
L-shaped group with quarter-circular walls which abut barn on
left and stables (qv) to right, joined by C20 gate.
EXTERIOR: barn: 5 bays with central elliptically-arched,
full-height entrance with date stone at apex and split plank
doors; exposed facades have elliptically-arched recess to each
bay with diamond-shaped panels of breathers; cogged eaves.
Stables with granary over: 6 narrow bays with pilaster
buttresses between. 3 elliptically-arched stable openings with
C20 split plank doors to second, fourth and sixth bays; to
third and fifth bays are small elliptically-arched openings
with casement windows and slats; first bay has flight of steps
to granary, entrance has plank door; cogged eaves. Right
gable-end wall curves. 2 pilaster buttresses to gable end;
casement to formerly larger pitching opening.
INTERIOR: barn: has stone flagged threshing floor; 4 bays of
truncated collar and tie-beam roof trusses with queen struts
and lower angle braces, 2 tiers of purlins and slender ridge
piece, rafters and wind braces; the trusses are pegged but
have additional lower bolts. Projecting porch at rear has king
post truss to gable. Rear facade partly obscured by temporary
C20 shelters.
Stables with granary over: original board floor; 2 bays of
roof trusses each with 2 full-height posts, collar and 2 tiers
of angle braces, trenched purlins, rafters and narrow ridge
purlin.
Walls: approx 1m high with shaped stone copings to front part,
otherwise brick copings.
All the buildings at Leasowes Farm form a group.

Listing NGR: SP1229170716

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662450

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)