Little Manson Barn

SO 41 NE LLANROTHAL CP MANSON LANE

4/50 Little Manson Barn

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Barn. C18. Thin coursed sandstone rubble, pantile roof, part corrugated iron. Rectangular three bay barn with central cart doors on either side. Three tiers of triangular ventilators in all four walls; west gable wall has a rectangular loading door in gable and a triangular vent, possibly owl hole at apex. South side has a blocked square window with timber lintel to right of cart door and a slit vent to the right of that. Although not a bank barn the ground falls to the south and the south wall is much higher than the north one. Stub of possible yard wall although high continues south wall to east and is part of the original.

Interior has two queen strut trusses halved and pegged at apex and with carpenter's marks. Through purlin roof with light diagonally set ridge. The empty mortices for clasped purlins indicate the re-use of the main trusses probably from a C17 building because the present roof is certainly original to this building.

A well preserved example of a Herefordshire out barn.

Listing NGR: SO4981116067