Barn And Attached Cowhouse Approximately 30 Metres To East Of Butts Farmhouse

SU 83 NE FRENSHAM GREEN LANE (South side) Churt

3/56 Barn and attached cowhouse approx 30 metres to east of Butts Farmhouse

II

The entry shall be amended to read:

SU 83 NE FRENSHAM GREEN LANE (South side) Churt

7/56 Barn and attached cowhouse approx 30 metres to east of Butts Farmhouse

II

The following building shall be added to the list:

SU 83 NE FRENSHAM GREEN LANE (South side) 3/56 Churt

Barn and attached cowhouse approx 30 metres to east of Butts Farmhouse II

Barn and attached cowhouse. Early C18 barn with addition of 1755, cowhouse range late C18 and C19 of different builds all with later C19 alterations. Rubblestone and timber-framed with weatherboard cladding, Welsh slate roofs. L-shaped plan barn forming east-west range and cowhouse the north-south range. Barn : 5 bays, the west bay added, with single aisle, on north side. Rubblestone plinth and west end wall which has brick-dressed slit vents and weatherboard gable. Central opposing cart-entries with double board doors, that on north side in gabled midstrey; opposing stable doors at west end and another at east end on north side. Small door to east end wall. Roof hipped at east end. Interior: frame survives well, of large scantling timbers, including sole plate, mid rail, and wall plate with angle braces from posts; jowelled posts braced to the tie beams (some braces curved); queen strut roof trusses with clasped through purlins, coupled rafters, no ridge-piece, later additional rafters. Mortices in posts and soffit of tie beam of west truss indicate position of former end wall; the added bay beyond has wall-plate inscribed "I.R. Fecit 1755". Stalls in west end. Cowhouse range: built up from south (barn) end. 4 bays with side outshut at north end and aisle on east side. Rubblestone plinth with brick dressings. Side outshut has doorway on left; bay 1 former cowhouse, has board stable door on right to through passage; bay 2 has wide board door to through passage; bays 3 and 4 open-fronted with post between them on brick plinth and straight-braced to wall plate; roof--half-hipped at left end. Interior: bay 1 has cobble floor to through-passage and stalls for 6 cows with wood partitions, mangers with tethering rings and feeding rack; bay 2 through-passage has weatherboard partition walls, with board door into bay 1; bays 3 and 4 have continuous wood manger on north and east sides and 2 queen strut trusses.

In state of disrepair at time of inspection. The C19 cowhouse fittings are a rare survival.

Listing NGR: SU8584437936