Old Tithe Barn, Waddon

The following building shall be added:

TQ 36 SW PURLEY WAY 5/52 NO 520 OLD TITHE BARN, WADDON II

Former barn, now offices. C18, shown on the map of Waddon Court of 1799. Unusual structure of 2 parallel ranges with M shaped roof, timber framed, clad in light brickwork with very steeply pitched tiled roof with wooden louvres at the end of each range. West side has hipped midstray with double doors and 3 C20 windows and some C18 brickwork in English band.North side has C19 and C20 brickwork in Flemish bond, East side has C20 brickwork in Flemish bond and the south side has 2 diagonal brick buttresses and mainly C19 and C20 brickwork. Aisled barn of 7 bays with no aisle posts in the centre. Upright post are unjowled with diagonal braces. Aisle parts are on brick padstones. Butt purlin roof, with 2 tiers to tiles and struts for the posts to the lower purline. This barn may have been built to replace the old Orrydan tithe barn when the latter was turned into 24 cottages. In the late C18 it formed part of Waddon Court and later part of Coldharbour farm.

Listing NGR: TQ3106964404