Barn 100 Metres South West Of Abbey Farmhouse With Detached Gable 10 Metres To North*

TF 7815 10/50 19.10.57

WEST ACRE CHURCH GREEN (south side) Barn 100 metres south- west of Abbey Farmhouse with detached gable 10 metres to north. (Formerly listed as Priory Gatehouse and remains in Abbey Farm buildings.)

G.V. II*

Barn. Late medieval. Flint, stone dressings, slate roof. 2 3-stead barns built end to end, formerly extending to now detached north gable. West face has 2 massive stone faced buttresses with set offs. Stone dressed ventilation slits. 2 cart entrances with in-situ stone jambs, C19 brick arched head at north, wooden lintel at south. Detached former north gable has 2 buttresses with set offs. South gable has angle quoins and 2 buttresses with set offs. C19 Queen post strut roof. Some detached tie-beams resting on wall plate with wall posts and struts surviving from an earlier roof. Perhaps part of former west or farm court of the Priory of St. Mary and All Saints. Scheduled Ancient Monument, County Number 170. See F.H. Fairweather and H.L. Bradfer-Lawrence 'The Priory ... Westacre' Norfolk Archaeology XXIII, 1929, pp. 359-394.

Listing NGR: TF7803015051