Barn At Alswick Hall 30 Meters To North West Of Hall

TL 32 NE BUNTINGFORD HARE STREET ROAD (south side)

4/9 Barn at Alswick Hall 30m to NW of Hall 22.2.67 (formerly listed as Barn as Alswick Hall) GV II

Barn, now a barn with stable in E part. C17, disguised as completely a stable block by new brick S front and end walls in early C18, later lean-to additions at E end. Timber frame on red brick sill, weatherboarded on N with some stepped painted brick infill at lower parts. Red brick chequered with black headers on S and E, painted over at W end. Steep hipped old red tile roof. A long building of about 9 bays with the 7 western bays in barn use and a wall cutting off the stable in the E part with its inserted floor. Projecting hipped N porch to barn. S side facing the Hall has paired vertical slits at 2 levels to ventilate the barn but also 3 groups of openings under segmental arches of a wide door flanked by 2 windows as if the whole building were stables. Hipped louvred dormers on the S roofslope. Original butt-purlin roof with one purlin to each slope and rafters tennoned into it. Collar and outswept queen-post trusses. Tie- beams on heavy jowled posts with shaped chin to jowls. Straight wind braces only in porch-bay. Mortices of a former closed truss dividing the barn into 2 parts.

Listing NGR: TL3770529456