Barn Range At Westmill Bury Farm (100 Metres To North Of The Bury)

Westmill village TL 32 NE WESTMILL HIGH STREET (south side)

2/18 Barn Range at Westmill Bury Farm (loom to N of the Bury) 19.10.51 (W arm formerly listed as West Mill Tithe Barn)

GV II*

Barn range. C16 or early C17, roofs altered in early C20. Timber frame on low red brick sill, dark weatherboarded. W gable end infilled with red brick with grey diaper patterning. W arm has red pantile roof. S arm roofed in corrugated asbestos, with steep pitched roof at N end and gambrel roof at S. Similar shorter N arm. An T-shaped range of aisled barns, 8 bays in W arm and 8 bays in S arm with unaisled short N arm. Tall aisle- posts with ogee moulding at base of jowl. Curved braces to arcade-plates and tie beams, and between jowled bay posts in aisle-walls and the aisle tie-beams. Clasped purlin roof with single purlin and trusses with collar and inclined struts across the angles. Original steep roof survives in 2 bays at N end of S arm. W arm has had aisle walls heightened and lower pitched roof built above tie beams. S part of S range retains steep roofs to aisles, but roof rebuilt much lower-pitched to nave, creating a gambrel roof form. Face-halved bladed scarf joint used in arcade plates over each post. An unusually extensive aisled barn range. (RCHM (1911) 237).

Listing NGR: TL3709627172