Barn, Cart Entrance And Loose Box Approximately 40 Metres West Of The Old Farmhouse

BUCKNELL C.P. BUCKNELL SO 37 SE 12/16 Barn, cart entrance - 12.4.85 and loose box approx. 40m west of The Old Farmhouse GV II

Barn, cart entrance and loose box. Late C17 with later alterations. Weather- boarded timber frame on roughly coursed limestone rubble plinth; corrugated iron roof, hipped to north. Slightly later 2-bay storage loft and loose box at right angles to east on north and 5-bay former threshing barn to south, flanking cart entrance to farmyard. East front: barn to left has 5 square pitching openings and central doorway; loose box to right has boarded doors to front and onto cart entrance to left. Interior. Framing visible: square panels, 3 from cill to wall-plate with short straight tension braces, some with woven infill. Long straight tension braces to bay partitions. Staggered double-purlin roof with slightly raking struts from tie beams to principal rafters; collar and tie beam end trusses with struts from collars. Stone slab threshing floor in third bay from south. Framing more renewed to loose box; central truss with curved principal rafters and queen-strut end truss with raking struts from collar. Blocked C17 segmental-headed doorway to cart entrance. The range forms oneside of a farmstead, grouped around a square courtyard with farmhouse (q.v. under The Old Farmhouse) to east.

Listing NGR: SO3553274007