Barn At Littlebourne Court

In the entry for:-

TR 2157 35/448 LITTLEBOURNE CHURCH ROAD (north east side)

Barn at Littlebourne 30. 1.67 Court

II*

The entry shall be amended to read:

TR 2157 LITTLEBOURNE CHURCH ROAD (north east side)

35/448A Barn at Littlebourne Court I

Barn. Probably mid C14 (dated c.1400 by carbon dating) and possibly reusing elements from an earlier C12 barn on the site. Large aisled timberframed barn clad in vertical weatherboarding on brick plinth with hipped thatched roof. 2 hipped waggon entrances added in 1961. 8½ bay barn 172 feet long. Passing braces. Crown posts with foot braces on either side and head braces supporting collar braces. Rafters but no ridgepiece with substantial re-rafting. Jowled posts supported on wooden padstones. Remarkable survival of midrail to vertical weatherboarding. The barn is remarkably complete although 1 foot brace has been replaced and some knee supports have been inserted between the upright posts and arched braces. Normal assembly to main plate and reverse assembly to aisle plate with variety of joints. The barn belonged to St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury and part of it may have been us-ed for storing tithes. This is the earliest barn in Canterbury District and together with Frindsbury barn Medway District and Brook barn Ashford District one of the earliest known barns in Kent. (See S E Rigold 'Some Major Kentish Timber Barns' Arch Cant Vol LXXXI Jane Wade Ed 'Traditional Kent Buildings' No 4 pp 26-35).

Listing NGR: TR2102857884