Byre 20 Metres East Of The Hyde Farmhouse

TL60SW 723-1/2/40

BLACKMORE

MOUNTNESSING ROAD (West side) Byre 20 metres east of The Hyde Farmhouse

GV II

Byre, now stable. Late C17. Timber-framed, weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing SW, wide enough for 2 lines of beasts. Lean-to extension to NW. Abuts on other buildings to NE and SW, not of special architectural or historic interest. Two C20 halved doors, three C20 fixed lights. INTERIOR: hardwood frame. Unjowled posts. The NE internal tie-beam has braces of serpentine curvature, tenoned and pegged. The middle tie-beam has arched braces. Face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates. Queen struts to clasped purlin roof. The studding of the NW wall has been removed, combining the lean-to in the same interior. Some posts repaired with concrete plinths. The NW pitch of the 2 middle bays of the roof has been altered at an early date, the original rafters tenoned and pegged to an in-pitch purlin supported on the tie-beams; other rafters carry the roof over the lean-to at a continuous lower pitch. A gap in the mortices for studding in the NW wallplate indicates that originally there was an access for beasts on this side, to the road. This is a rare survival of its type and period.

Listing NGR: TL6107600234