Rectorial Tithe Barn

ENSTONE CHURCH STREET SP3625-3725 (North side) Church Enstone 14/51 Rectorial Tithe Barn 27/08/57 (Formerly listed as Barn at Rectory Farm)

GV II*

Tithe barn. 1382 for Walter de Wynforton, Abbot of Winchcombe; probably partly rebuilt. Limestone rubble with marlstone-ashlar dressings; stone-slate roof. 6-bay plan with a porch to bay 3 and opposed double doors. Bays are defined by ashlar buttresses, rising from chamfered plinths, and some areas of walling retain plinths; further buttresses flank main doors of hipped-roofed porch. Right end wall has some triangular vents; left end wall has a central buttress, a horizontal ashlar weathering, a gable slit and a stone parapet. Side door to porch has chamfered jambs and may have been arched. Re-set datestone in bay one is flanked by carved heads and has a 4-line Latin inscription containing the date 1382. Interior: heavy elbowed cruck blades, springing approximately 1.5 metres above the floor, are each linked by 2 collars and an apex yoke; 2 rows of trenched purlins, ridge piece and rafters are mostly C20. Porch has 2 tiebeam trusses with apex yokes. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p594; R.Wood-Jones: Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963: pp15-19)

Listing NGR: SP3785325106