Barn 40 Yards South East Of Village Farmhouse

SEIGHFORD Barn 40 yards south 1. 5373 east of Village Farmhouse SJ 82 NE SP735 II 0/735 GV

2. Barn and cowshed. Dated 1758, altered in C19 and C20. Red brick with internal timber- framing to barn. Four-bay barn aligned north-west, south-east with cowshed projecting at right angles at south end to south-west. Through-passage threshing floor with double-boarded doors to barn at junction with cowshed. Six rows of dove-holes, nestings and flight-perches to north-west gable end of barn; date 1758 set out in brick below. Eight rows of ventilation holes to side to south-west, the lower five discontinuous. Various ventilation holes to north-west gable end. Stable with stable doors in north-west bay of barn. 3-bay cowshed to south-east. Interior: Threshing floor flanked by trusses with jowled wall-posts braced down to continuous cill-beams on low plinth walls. Centre post to tie beam with queen struts to principals. Cowshed with tie beams, king post trusses with double struts to curved principals. JEC Peters, Farm Buildings of Western Lowland Staffordshire, Manchester, 1969, Pp 59, 69, 71, 97, 119, 176, 206, Figs 5, 30.

Listing NGR: SJ8788325113