Barn Approximately 120 Metres To South West Of Ludlay

SELMESTON Barn approx 120 metres to TQ 50 NW south-west of Ludlay 17/520

GV II

Barn. Early-mid C19. Coursed flint having red brick dressings and cart-entry bays with decorative blue-brick headers plain tile roof. Yard (north-east) side: 5 bays, the 2 on left narrower. Plinth. Offset butresses to ends and flanking central cart-entry bay which has hinged double board door replacing former sliding door (iron runners survive on plinth and below eaves), the brick sections flanking the door and the butresses having blue-brick bands to upper half (which is the part most visible from a distance, above the yard walls). Slit vents to outer bays, set on three levels in pattern; on right side of cart-entry bay a quadrant brick drinking trough. Half-hipped roof. Rear: lower eaves and shorter plinth; offset butresses as before. Cart-entry has side- sliding door of corrugated iron. Left return: a boarded-up loading door flanked by slit vents. Right return: smaller loading door flanked by slit vents; corrugated iron lean-to not of special interest. INTERIOR: brick, concave corners. Rear arcade with jowelled wooden posts on brick stylobates and arch braces up to tie-beams, collared principal rafter roof trusses; through purlins; long straight windbraces; plank ridge-piece.

Listing NGR: TQ5218907388