Swanwick Barn And Cart Shed About 40 Metres South Of Rookery Farmhouse

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FAREHAM BOTLEY ROAD, Swanwick SU5109 899-0/16/10013 Barn and cart-shed about 40 metres south of Rookery Farmhouse GV II Barn. C17;C18 extensions and cart-shed. Timber-framed; weatherboarding clad in corrugated steel sheets; brick plinth. Roof with half-hipped ends, also clad in corrugated steel sheets. PLAN: 5-bay barn with opposing cart entrances to central threshing floor, the south east side with a circa C18 midstrey. Also in the C18 a further two bays were built on the north east end and a 3-bay cart-shed was built on the south west end. EXTERIOR: Single storey. South east side has weatherboarded midstrey to left of centre with plain tile hipped roof. North west side has cart entrance to right of centre and smaller doorway to left of centre; open-fronted 3-bay cart-shed on right with lower hipped roof and outshut at rear. INTERIOR: The frame is largely complete. Posts, studs, mid-rail and short straight tension-braces; jowled wall-posts with braces to the tie-beams with queen-post trusses, collars, clasped purlins and straight wind-braces; common-rafter couples intact. North east extension has large wall-studs and straight tension-braces. Cart-shed has long knee-braces under the wall-plates, straight braces to the tie-beams, but later roof structure above.

Listing NGR: SU5799407358