Barn About 30 Metres North West Of Great Cheveney House

TQ 74 SW MARDEN GOUDHURST ROAD (west side)

3/51 Barn about 30 metres north-west of Great Cheveney House

GV II

Barn. Early C16 or earlier, with mid C17 and C19 additions. Timber framed with mid C17 red and grey brick infilling to front (south) elevation of C16 and C17 sections. Most of right return weatherboarded. C19 addition red and grey brick in Flemish bond to ground floor, weatherboarded above. Plain tile roof. C16 barn of four timber-framed bays, with one bay added to left (west) in mid C17, three bays added to rear to right at similar date, and two further bays added to left in C19. C19 addition 2 storeys, on brick plinth. Stone plinth to rest. Brick infilling divided by studs and lacing pieces into broad irregular rectangular panels. Herringbone eaves course. Large initial "G" worked into brick, probably for George Maplesden, d.1688. Roof gabled to left, hipped to right, hip returning to rear with lower ridge. Loading hatch to first floor and broad boarded door to ground floor of C19 addition. Virtually full- height boarded door to third timber-framed bay from right. C19 porch to rear. Interior: C16 section has gunstock-jowled posts with short arch braces to tie-beams, plain crown-posts with head and foot braces, and lapped collars. C17 single bay has shaped jowls, and clasped purlin roof with two windbraces. Tension braces to former gable. Cut jowls, and clasped purlin roof with straight windbraces to rear "wing". Stave, lath and daub infilling above midrail to part of rear wall.

Listing NGR: TQ7356342278