Description

DORSINGTON

SP14NW VILLAGE STREET
1931-1/5/45 (West side)
05/04/67 Barn and outbuildings immediately
north-east of Manor House Farmhouse
(Formerly Listed as:
Barn at Manor House Farm)

GV II

Barn and 2 ranges of outbuildings forming 3 sides of yard. C17
with later alterations and additions including roof trusses.
Timber-frame with C20 brick and wattle-and-daub infill, brick
and coursed rubble; steeply pitched half-hipped renewed tile
roof. 5-bay barn has addition to each end; north-west shelter
shed range has 2-storey cross-wing to end; later south-west
shelter shed range.
EXTERIOR: east elevation of barn has 2 former threshing floor
entrances with C20 brick infill and entrances with windows
above; each has bay to left with square framing with tension
braces over high stone plinth; timber-framed bay to right has
some alterations to former entrance: probably 3-bay barn
extended to 5 bays with extra threshing floor; left end has
timber-framed addition with large brick panels and high frieze
window; right end has visible end of stone cross wall and
addition with timber-framed attic over stone, entrance to
left.
Left return brick gable; right return has loading door and
flanking windows.
INTERIOR: has 4 roof trusses with tie beams, 2 braced, queen
struts to collars and principals truncated at upper purlins;
truss to south has lower tie beam and straight crucks to
second collar and spurs; end attic has one cruck truss, and
queen strut truss to addition.
West elevation similar, but with shelter sheds, that to north
is stone with brick infill to front; tie-beam and collar
trusses with struts; cross wing has timber-framed side wall
and stone end walls with timber-framed half-hipped gables over
shuttered pitching holes; outer wall is brick with modillioned
cornice and small stone wing. Shelter shed to south is open
fronted, with C20 end block.
The outbuildings were not formerly listed.

Listing NGR: SP1308849384

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662759

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5