Description

COLD ASH

14/0/10025 THE RIDGE
30-MAR-10 Threshing Barn at Westrop Farm

II
Barn, C18.

MATERIALS: Timber-framed and weatherboarded on a brick plinth. The base of the frame is replaced or underpinned in C19 red brick and engineering brick brick. Internally, softer red brick spur walls, again mostly C19, support the aisle posts. Some spur walls are of softer and presumably earlier red brick. Pegtile roofs.

PLAN: The barn is aligned north-south, enclosing the western side of the farmyard. It is of three large bays flanked at each end by a narrower bay, with central opposing entrances, taller on the western side. It has a single aisle on the eastern flank, a hipped tile roof with a deep catslide roof at the northern end and a protruding gabled porch over the western entrance, containing a pigeon loft.

EXTERIOR: Clad in horizontal weatherboarding with some patching and with a small inserted entrance in the south gable plinth wall. The gable over the western entrance is supported on slender brackets. Attached to the western side are C20 metal-framed open-sided barns which are not of special interest.

INTERIOR: The roof is of two tiers of staggered purlins; tie beams have slightly curved braces; collars are supported on slender struts.

SOURCES:
Oxford Archaeology Ltd, Westrop Farm, Cold Ash, West Berkshire (March 2010)
Tubb, R, B, Cold Ash & Ashmore Green, Road by Road (2004), 26-8, 49, 139
Roque's Map of Berkshire, 1761
Bucklebury Tithe Map, Berkshire Record Office, T/M145/1-22; D/D1 28/1B 1842
Bucklebury Tithe Award, Berkshire Record Office, D/D1 28/1A
OS Map 1:2500, OS XXXV :11, 1870 -1880

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION
The threshing barn, Westrop Farm is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: good example of late, vernacular construction of a barn in which the plan and function is clearly demonstrated in the single aisle, opposing entrances and pigeon loft;
* Historic interest: as an element of a loosely-planned farmyard which is typical of the later C18 and early C19.

Reasons for Listing

The threshing barn, Westrop Farm is recommended for designation at Grade II the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: good example of late, vernacular construction of a barn in which the plan and function is clearly demonstrated in the single aisle, opposing entrances and pigeon loft;
* Historic interest: as an element of a loosely planned farmyard which is typical of the later C18 and early C19

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26672877

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6