South Barn And Adjoining Stable At Rectory Farm

PIRTON SHILLINGTON ROAD TL 1431 (North side)

7/173 South Barn and 27.5.68 adjoining stable at Rectory Farm

GV II

Barn and stable. Late C16 and late C17. Timber framed on stuccoed brick sills, dark weatherboarded, exposed N front to barn with red brick infill, red brick facing to W end of barn. Steep red tile roofs. A tall, 5 bays barn with gabled projecting central N porch and 3-bays narrower stable adjoining to E, both backing onto road and facing N. The barn has long stepped jowls to bay-posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, mid-height rail jointed in-line, long straight tension braces at corners and in 2nd and 4th bays. Long straight braces to tie beams, and to wallplate in porch bay. Edge-halved scarf joint in wallplate with bridled butts. Roof of unusual experimental design with 2 purlins to each slope. Lower butt-purlin jointed to principal rafter of the truss with a single collar at mid-height with inclined queen struts under. Upper purlin clasped by heavy broad inclined queen-posts rising from collar to principal. Rafters jointed into lower purlin. In several bays this experimental arrangement has caused failure due to the principal rafter not being supported at the point where the lower purlins are butt jointed in-line. Extra purlins have been inserted a little higher at staggered heights clasped by short horizontal ties below the collar from the queen-strut to the principal. Thin slender straight wind-braces. Lower gabled single-bay porch with single clasped purlin to each slope carried by a collar in the gable. The stable has jowled posts, slender straight tension braces, straight braces to cambered tie-beams, one purlin to each slope carried on inclined queen-posts.

Listing NGR: TL1413631874