Barn And Stable Attached At Number 9 (Forge Farm)

TL 01 SW NETTLEDEN WITH NETTLEDEN POTTEN END (South side)

3/217 Barn and stable attached - at No. 9 (Forge Farm)

GV II

Barn and stable attached. C17 barn, C18 stable, W gable C20 brick. Timber frames on low red brick sills, dark weatherboarded with steep old red tile roofs. Red brick W gable to barn. A tall 1½-bays barn facing N, formerly extending further to W and linked by forge to house. Lower 2-bays stable joins E bay of barn at an angle on N side. Barn has jowled bay-posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, mid-height rail tenoned in-line, clasped-purlin roof with single purlin in each slope, curved inclined queen-posts to open truss without collar, collar and struts in E gable truss. Straight braces to tie-beams and wall-plates. Stable has split doors, front and back, next junction with barn, and 3-light lattice leaded casement in N gable, protected by later extension not of special interest. Stable has primitive carpentry using natural S-curved braces to wall plates, unjowled posts, and side-purlin roof supported by a segmental curved member, scarfed at middle, and curving up from wallplate to support undersides of the 2 purlins.

Listing NGR: TL0208310447