Pool Corner

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SO 85 NW 4/10003

HALLOW SHOULTON Pool Corner

(Formerly listed as Barn about 80 metres SSE of Headways farmhouse)

II Former barn and adjoining cowhouse. Circa late C17 or early C18; cowhouse extension circa C18 and C19. Weatherboarded timber frame, partly reclad in corrugated steel sheets, sandstone and brick plinth; cowhouse in mixed garden wall bond and timber framed at south end. Plain tile roofs with gabled ends.

PLAN: three-bay barn with cart entrance on south side of central bay and with cowhouse range at right angles to north of east-bay, extended in C19.

EXTERIOR: south front of barn has full height cart entrance at centre and on north side a small doorway at centre; both C20 doors. The cowhouse south bays are weatherboarded timber frame, some of the upper panels have wattle infill; the brick north extension to the cowhouses has partly rebuilt west wall.

INTERIOR: three-bay frame barn with jowled storey posts, heavy studs, tension braces and no midrail; tie-beams with queen-struts and high collars morticed to principal rafters, trenched purlins and diagonal ridgepiece; common rafters and batons intact. Roof over cowhouse has tall queen-posts supported on floor beams and tied to wall-plates and morticed to principals; collars above with king-posts; trenched purlins.

Listing NGR: SO8118958698