Barn approximately 1.5 metres to north-east of Lower Wat Ing is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1988. Barn.
Barn approximately 1.5 metres to north-east of Lower Wat Ing
- WRENN ID
- patient-iron-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century barn located approximately 1.5 metres to the north-east of Lower Wat Ing in Sowerby Bridge, Norland. The barn is constructed of coursed squared stone and rubble, topped with a stone slate roof. It features five bays with a front aisle.
On the north-east front, there is a brick outshut extension on the left, which is not of interest, that conceals a central recessed cart entry. This entry has a socketed wood lintel and is flanked by shallow Tudor-arched doorways leading into the aisles. The left aisle includes a chamfered light, while the right aisle contains one single and one tripled round-arched vent. The gable ends have shaped kneelers and coping.
At the rear, the right bay is made of rubble. There is a central chamfered quoined basket-arched doorway with a datestone above that reads '1663 IMM', which may have been reused from a different stone. To the left of this doorway is a chamfered arched vent. On the right return, there is a chamfered quoined Tudor-arched doorway on the left, along with arched vents and a chamfered owl hole in the gable.
Inside, the barn features five trusses with posts braced to the arcade plate and tie beams. Braces extend from the front wall to the tie beams, which are supported on corbels. The structure includes a queen-strut, a king-post, and two open trusses with trenched purlins and old rafters. The two outer tie beams have mortices for studs, indicating their original use in closing trusses. The arcade plate also has mortices for studs, suggesting it was originally used as a wall plate. These details, along with two sets of carpenter's marks on the trusses, indicate that the barn is a rebuilding of a timber-framed structure, which the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments report suggests was originally at least seven bays and single-aisled.
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