Barn And Attached Stable Approximately 60 Metres To South West Of Hunt'S Farm Cottage

HARPSDEN HUNT'S GREEN SU 78 SW Barn and attached stable approximately 6/193 60 m to south-west of Hunt's Farm Cottage GV II Barn and attached stable. Barn probably C17, repaired and clad C18; stable late C19. Timber-frame barn originally with wattle and daub infill, now with weatherboard cladding, barn with brick and flint plinth; plain tile roofs. Barn of 3 bays having central opposed cart-entries with strap-hinged board doors and pedestrian side-door at rear. Stable has 3 small-pane windows and 2 ridge louvres; at rear stable door flanked by 2-light small-pane windows. Interior of barn: wall posts jowelled at cart-entry, otherwise unjowelled, with straight braces to wall plate and tie-beams; collared queen-post roof trusses; clasped purlins; old rafters; square-section ridge piece supported by apex collars; wind braces. Wall framing has mid rail and close-set studs which apparently replace former wattle and daub infill (the evidence for which is the holes in the soffits of plates and rails and grooves in top of rails and sole plate which formerly would have held the staves for the wattle and daub panels). Timber threshing floor. A barn appears on this site on J Blagrave's 1586 map of the Manor of Harding (see Henley on Thames Archaeological and Historical Group, Vernacular Buildings Research Group, Report No.52/1988). Stable included for group value.

Listing NGR: SU7438180582