Barn At Greatford Hall

TF O1 SE GREATFORD CHURCH LANE

5/82 Barn at Greatford Hall 30.10.68 -

G.V. II*

Aisled barn. Early C16, altered C20. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins to lower part of wall. Timber frame upper part. Collyweston slate roof. Single storey with attic lights, 2 bay front. The side walls stand to 5'O" and have a chamfered coping. Above approximately the same height of timber frame, close studding on a sleeper beam arranged in 8 bays with straight diagonal braces on the bay posts now infilled with glass. Off-centre double planked doors with weatherboarded gablette and to right a smaller planked door. In the roof are 2 gable dormers, 2 light plain casements and slate hung cheeks. On the south side there are no openings, but at the centre is a C20 decorative concrete panel, one of many made by Major C.C.L. Fitzwilliam, the rebuilder of the Hall in the 1930s. The interior has 8 aisled bays comprising large jowled posts on stone bases spaced approximately 12'O" apart, with straight braces to the ties. The principals are numbered. The tie beams have queen post struts. Lapped butt purlins. There is no firm evidence for the original use of the barn, but from its size it seems likely that it was for tithes.

Listing NGR: TF0859911889