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ASHFORD BOWDLER

SO57SW RICHARDS CASTLE ROAD
482-1/9/12 Barn and attached outbuildings at
31/10/89 Rhyse Farm (Rhyse Farmhouse not
included)

II

Barn with shelter shed and outbuildings. c1771-1791. Red brick
in flemish bond with hipped slate roof to barn, gabled old
plain-tile roof to shelter shed and lean-to outbuilding to
linking outbuilding. L-plan; barn linked by L-shaped wall with
lean-to outbuilding to shelter shed.
EXTERIOR: barn has central segmental-arched entry to threshing
floor and, to right, segmental-arched doorway and windows to
cowhouse and loft floors (probably granary); cross-shaped
ventilation holes; dentilled brick eaves; similar
threshing-floor doorway to rear. Weatherboarded front and
through-entry to lean-to outbuilding to left. 7-bay
open-fronted shelter shed with round brick piers to wall
plate; brick manger.
INTERIOR: barn with 5-bay, double trenched-purlin roof with 4
king-post trusses. Shelter shed: 7-bay, single trenched-purlin
roof with 6 queen-post trusses.
Known as Johnathon Green's Barn after the Lord of the Manor of
Ashford Hall for whom it was built.

Listing NGR: SO5131571049