The Barge

BLACKMORE

TL6001 THE GREEN 723-1/15/53 (East side) 20/02/76 The Barge (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD THE GREEN, Blackmore (South side) The Barge)

GV II

House. C17, possibly earlier. Timber-framed, weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing NW, with axial stack to left of middle bay, and C18 external stack at right end. One-bay wing to rear of middle bay, and outshuts to each side of it, the whole forming a rectangular plan. Three C20 and three C19 casements in gabled dormers. C20 half-glazed door, with C19 canopy on simple brackets. Gambrel roof half-hipped at left end, forming 2 catslides to rear. The rear elevation has two C19 casements. The external stack has tumbled courses in the shoulders. INTERIOR: chamfered axial beams, with lamb's tongue stops in the left bay only. No other framing is exposed. Wood-burning hearth facing to right, with 0.23m jambs, all plastered. C20 grates to left of it and at right end. 4-plank ledged pine door to stair, C18 or earlier. This house occupies a visually important position at the east end of The Green; its weatherboarded and tiled surfaces retain a village character which some of the other listed houses have already lost (by 1989) owing to inappropriate modernisation. Any future replacement of windows should aim to retain this character.

Listing NGR: TL6052101756