Barn and adjoining range at 90 degrees at Wool Greaves Farm

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CAWTHORNE SOUTH LANE (south sides) Barn and adjoining range at 90° at Wool Greaves Farm

18.3.68

GV II

Barn and adjoining range at 90°. C17, adjoining range altered. Thinly-coursed rubble with quoins. Stone slate roof. Adjoining range is two storeys.

Barn: four internal bays. Central square-headed cart entry with quoined jambs and oak lintel above which is a gabled two-tier dovecot. Harr-hung oak doors are set back and mistal doors are set in the side walls of this porch. Continuous outshut to each side. Rear: outshut to left. Opposed square-headed cart entry.

The adjoining range is much altered with various openings including a central cart entrance and two double-chamfered pitching holes or windows to upper floor. Four stone stair leads to a doorway at right end. The rear is also very altered but has a blocked opposed cart entry and various altered or later openings.

Interior of barn: three large king post trusses with struts, straight braced to ridge, and with massive tie-beams. The trusses at each side of the door have additional brick supports at front. The left truss is supported on an arcade post with an aisle tie in the outshut which contains. Two house stalls and two cattle stalls.

Interior of adjoining range has four large principal rafter trusses with struts, one in the centre having particularly large struts. Two have been infilled later with studs and wattle.

Listing NGR: SE2672506122