Barn Approximately 30 Metres South East Of Lower Pimbo Farmhouse

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SD50SW PIMBO LANE 783-1/4/67 (East side (off)) Barn approximately 30 metres south-east of Lower Pimbo Farmhouse

GV II

Barn and shippon. Early to mid C18, enlarged and altered. Watershot coursed sandstone rubble, asbestos sheet roof hipped at left end. L-plan composed of 3-bay shippon range on east-west axis (plus added bay at west end) with 2-bay barn wing on south side of 1st bay, and an added outshut at the east end of the shippon range. The north front of the shippon range is 2-storeyed and has former shippon doorways to the 1st and 3rd bays (the latter blocked), a feeding passage doorway in the centre with a stable door, and external steps across the 3rd bay to loft doorways in this and the added 4th bay (the latter doorway with a re-used heavily-studded double-layered plank door). The east front of the barn has a central waggon doorway with a pegged wooden doorcase and stop-chamfered lintel, and double batten-and-board doors protected by a shallow porch with splayed cheeks which are now integrated with additions to left and right. INTERIOR: a full set of fine kingpost roof trusses, including the hip and the junction (which has an open timber frame at 1st floor), all pegged and chamfered with run-out stops. Former lateral shippon stalls removed. Forms group with Lower Pimbo Farmhouse approximately 30 metres north-west (qv).

Listing NGR: SD5104303584