Codborough Barn At Leasowes Farm

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SP17SW DOCTOR'S HILL 652-1/2/132 (East side (off)) Codborough Barn at Leasowes Farm

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Field barn and cow sheds. Probably early C18 with late C20 restorations. Timber-framed barn with brick nogging and reddish-brown brick cow sheds, with gabled plain-tile roofs, renewed in part. L-shaped group, 3-bay barn with 4-bay cow shed to rear. EXTERIOR: barn: small square panels of timber-framing with tension braces; off-centre entrance with remains of plank doors; opening with plank cover to left; diamond-shaped breathers. Outshut to rear at right under catslide roof. Cow sheds: to rear have 3 brick piers to front. INTERIOR: barn: cross-frames to threshing floor, original collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and lower angle struts, clasped purlins to left and collar and tie-beam truss with lower angle struts and clasped principals to right; 2 tiers of trenched purlins. Cow sheds: has 2 pegged tie-beam trusses with angle struts and clasped principals, trenched purlins, original ridge piece, rafters and wind braces, all of roughly-hewn timbers. All the listed buildings at Leasowes Farm form a group.

Listing NGR: SP1306670679