Tithe Barn At Croxley Hall Farm

TQ 09 SE RICKMANSWORTH LAVROCK LANE (South side) Croxley Hall

9/176 Tithe Barn at 2.4.70 Croxley Hall Farm

GV II*

Tithe barn. Probably built 1396-1401 for Abbey of St. Albans during abbacy of John Moote, restored 1975. Timber frame. Flint, clunch and brick base walls. Weatherboarded. Tiled roof. 5 bays with nave and aisles, 2 bay entrance porch. 101ft by 381½ft. Central gabled entrance porch to E with double doors. C17 brick buttresses to base which has a low door to E. Doors to N and to W with two 16 pane fixed windows. Half hipped roof with gablets. Interior: hoggin floor, lime washed, 5ft high flint walls with clunch quoins and coping separate each bay in aisles. 2 central crown post trusses with outer collar and tie beam trusses. Arched braces from jowled arcade posts to tie beams and arcade plates. Crown posts braced to crown plate. Passing braces from wall posts to tie beams with lap joints to aisle ties and arcade posts. Intermediate braces from wall posts to arcade plates. Arched braces in end walls. Angled queen struts clasp purlins in entrance porch. (VCH 1908: RCHM 1910: S. Castle Herts Archaeology, vol.3, 1973, p.134: Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TQ0699994592