Description

TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN

SP17SW DOCTOR'S HILL
652-1/2/132 (East side (off))
Codborough Barn at Leasowes Farm

II

Field barn and cow sheds. Probably early C18 with late C20
restorations. Timber-framed barn with brick nogging and
reddish-brown brick cow sheds, with gabled plain-tile roofs,
renewed in part. L-shaped group, 3-bay barn with 4-bay cow
shed to rear.
EXTERIOR: barn: small square panels of timber-framing with
tension braces; off-centre entrance with remains of plank
doors; opening with plank cover to left; diamond-shaped
breathers. Outshut to rear at right under catslide roof.
Cow sheds: to rear have 3 brick piers to front.
INTERIOR: barn: cross-frames to threshing floor, original
collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and lower angle
struts, clasped purlins to left and collar and tie-beam truss
with lower angle struts and clasped principals to right; 2
tiers of trenched purlins.
Cow sheds: has 2 pegged tie-beam trusses with angle struts and
clasped principals, trenched purlins, original ridge piece,
rafters and wind braces, all of roughly-hewn timbers.
All the listed buildings at Leasowes Farm form a group.

Listing NGR: SP1306670679

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662452

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  For the Record
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)