Barn Approximately 20 Metres North East Of The Manor Preparatory School

ST.HELEN WITHOUT FARINGDON ROAD SU49NE (East side) Shippon 8/136 Barn approx. 20m. NE of The 09/02/66 Manor Preparatory School (Formerly listed as Manor House, including adjoining outbuildings) GV II* Barn, now gymnasium. C15, for Abingdon Abbey. Coursed limestone rubble with puplog holes and dressed quoins; old tile roof with stone coping and carved finials. 5-bay plan with threshing floor in second bay from left. Entries blocked by C20 door and glazing: timber lintel over smaller blocked entry in second bay from right. Interior: 5-bay roof with original windbraces to rear right, and C20 lateral (iron stanchion) and transverse (bolted plates) strengthening. Raised crucks with arch-braced lower collars, and upper collars halved into blades; ridge purlin laid on solid yoke; trenched side purlins with tabled scarf joints. Abingdon Abbey leased the site out to lay tenants in C15. (J. Fletcher, "Crucks in the West Berkshire and Oxfordshire Region", 0xonensia, Vol.33 (1968), pp.80-81; V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.IV, p.416).

Listing NGR: SU4846698045