Barn Approximately 30 Metres North Of Bridge End Farmhouse

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 BRIDGE STREET 669-1/1/38 (East side) 01/11/72 Barn approx 30m north of Bridge End Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET Barn at Bridge End Farm)

GV II

Large 11 bayed barn. C18. Timber-framed and weatherboarded, brick plinth, peg tile, slate and corrugated asbestos roof. L shaped plan of principal aisled NW-SE range with wing at N end to NW. SW elevation (towards front yard): SE end, peg tile roofed and showing site of 2 large waggon doorways, one has C20 weatherboarded replacement doors, other now infilled and weatherboarded with one small ground floor door, one upper loading door and second loading door under eaves, all boarded. NW end of range, roof slated and brought down over aisle, half of which has high brick plinth with loading door above. Other half open, arcaded with curved braces. NE elevation: to rear yard, principal range, SW end corrugated asbestos cement roof, continuous louvred vents under eaves, one ground floor and 3 upper boarded loading doors. NW end, full-height open bay with gabled loft above, loading door in gable. Wing at NW end to NE slated roof, 2 open arcaded bays continuing round NE end, narrow weatherboarded wall above with 2 boarded loading doors. SE end elevation: plain except for high boarded loading door, flatter roof pitch on NE side over internal aisle. NW end elevation: gable end of principal range with side wall of wing to NE. Slate roofs. Whole elevation on brick walling with flint cobble panels. Walling under wing, dentilled with 2 battered brick buttresses. Wing construction probably secondary to this boundary wall. Boarded loading doors, one in gable end, 3 in wing. INTERIOR: mainly C18 but elegant, with slender unjowled arcade posts and small curved arcade braces, also knee braces, very high side aisles. Roof partly of joggled butt side purlin type. Some trapped by collars, slender rafters. Most walling of primary braced construction. NE wall of main range of heavier construction with jowled posts and joints for internal tension bracing, also diamond mullion holes and shutter grooves for upper windows. 4 construction phases, probably (1), late C16 walling. (2) 6 SE bays, still with (now internal) weatherboarded NW end (3) 5 NW bays (4) NE arcaded wing, rear wall sat upon older existing wall. Scarf jointing is very irregular with some joints normally expected in a medieval context.

Listing NGR: TL5352038759