Barn and attached cow house approximately 35 metres to north of Lower House and Lower House Cottage (Former Lower House Farmhouse)

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WESTBURY CP BARNYARD CLOSE No 2, The Granary and No 3, The Wheathouse Barn and attached cow house approximately 35 metres to north of Lower House and Lower House Cottage (Former Lower House Farmhouse)

(Formerly listed as Barn and attached cow house approximately 35 metres to north of Former Lower House Farmhouse, SHREWSBURY ROAD, previously listed as Barn approximately 30 metres north north east of Lower House Farmhouse)

20.08.80

GV II Former barn and attached cow house. Probably mid-to late C18. Weatherboarded and corrugated-iron-clad timber frame on high C20 red brick plinth; corrugated-iron roof. Three framed bays.

Framing: widely-spaced studs with long straight tension braces. West front: central C20 casement and unglazed opening off-centre to right; pair of flanking two-leaf boarded doors. Cow house to right of coursed yellow sandstone rubble with brick dressings and slate roof. Two storeys; toothed brick eaves cornice; small loft window to right and boarded loft door of off centre-to left, ground floor window off-centre to left and pair of two-leaf boarded doors; former dovecote in right-hand gable end with blocked ntrances and ledges.

Interior of barn: tie-beam roof trusses with raking struts; single staggered purlins; cross frames with central posts and evidence of former angle and tension braces. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ3573109402