Barn Opposite Manor Farmhouse

BUSCOT THE STREET (East side) SU2397 Barn opposite Manor 5/13 Farmhouse II Barn. c1870. Mass concrete walls in 2 ft courses; gable ends of Bridgewater bricks capped with dressed stone and a gabled pantile roof lined on the inside with tongue and groove boarding. the barn measures 60 ft x 162 ft x 12 ft 6" to eaves and its concrete walls are 1 ft 4" thick at the base. An aisled plan inside of 10 bays with the original utilitarian frame intact. Reputedly the earliest concrete farm building in the country. Built at the expense of Robert Tertu is Campbell of Buscot Park as part of his scheme to industrialize the estate for the production of sugar beet and alcohol. Illustrated in Nigel Harvey, Old Farm Buildings, 1980, 20.

Listing NGR: SU2309197725