Tithe Barn At Church Farm And Attached Wall At The Stables

GREAT HASELEY GREAT HASELEY SP60SM 5/9 Tithe barn at Church Farm and 18/07/63 attached wall at The Stables

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Tithe barn. c.1400, Six-bay range with porch, formerly probably 10-bay with 2 porches. Limestone rubble with squared dressings; old plain-tile roof. Front has deep buttresses each with 2 weathered off-sets and there are blocked slits to each bay. Porch in third bay from right has a wide entrance with 3-centred stone arch of 2 chamfered orders supported by buttresses beneath a stone gable retaining traces of a parapet. Return wall to left of entrance contains a subsidiary door under a chamfered 2-centred stone arch. A further full-height entrance has been inserted between the buttresses of the second bay from the left. Right gable wall has 2 buttresses and a weatherboarded gable. Rear wall retains 5 buttresses plus a later raking buttress. Half-hipped roof. Rear wall continues to left in the garden of The Stables (q.v.), terminating in a buttress of the original left gable wall. It contains 3 or possibly 4 blocked slits. Interior: Not inspected but noted as being aisled with arched windbraces. A sketch of the barn's original form is shown on an estate map of 1701 by the cartographer Joel Gascoyne. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.620).

Listing NGR: SP6445101763