Barn And Attached Shelter Sheds And Yard Wall

SU 34 SW GOODWORTH CLATFORD FULLERTON ROAD (west side)

2/1 Barn and attached shelter sheds and yard wall

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Barn and attached shelter sheds and yard wall. Barn probably late C18, byres and wall early-mid C19. Flint, with brick quoins, vertical strips, lacing courses and butresses. Welsh slate roofs, barn previously tiled or thatched. Courtyard plan, with aisled 6-bay barn forming right (north-east) side, shelter sheds forming rear and left sides, and wall across front. Barn: north-east elevation: cart-entry to bay 4 has board double door and rises above eaves under hipped roof; left bay has bead-moulded board double door; hipped roof. Yard elevation: opposing cart-entry with board doors; at right end board door under segmental header brick arch. South-east gable has raked butresses. Yard wall is approx 2 metres high having domed brick coping and entrances at centre and on right. Shelter sheds are open- fronted with wooden posts on chamfered padstones, the original posts square with triangular-stopped chamfered arrises; some replacement posts; hipped roof. Interior: barn: jowelled arcade posts rise from brick walls projecting from walls and are braced to wall plate, arcade plate, and tie beams; curved queen strut roof trusses; butt purlins; long straight wind braces; old rafters; plank ridge piece. Original partition dividing off end bay has brick and flint plinth wall supporting weather-boarded timber-framed superstructure. Cart-entry jamb posts have slotted base-posts (to receive planks to partly block entrances when threshing). The arcade posts at the cart-entries have incised graffitti the earliest dates being in the 1820s. Shelter sheds: King-post roof trusses with raked struts, the king-posts bolted on to tie-beams; clasped purlins; plank ridge pieces, the rear walls have timber plates, possibly used to support man-gers. The buildings were in a dilapidated state at time of inspection. The 1808 tithe map shows the existing enclosure within which the yard is located; it does not appear on the 1735 tithe map.

Listing NGR: SU3586041728