South Barn, North Barn And Attached Stabling And Former Farm Building At Great Tangley Manor Farm

South Barn, North Barn and Attached Stabling and Former Farm Building at Great Tangley Manor Farm

Two former threshing barns, one adapted to a dairy and the other partially adapted into an estate office, together with a former farm building and some stabling. The buildings form a roughly L-shaped group. The north barn dates to the mid to late 16th century, the south barn to the late 16th century, with early 19th-century stabling and a 19th-century farm building.

The south barn is a timber-framed barn of five bays with rendered infill on a brick and stone plinth and tiled roof. On the north side, only two bays are visible due to the attached north barn and farm building. These bays display a midrail and almost straight tension braces, central lower cart doors, and a 20th-century triple casement window with leaded lights. The east end has a gable with stone plinth, almost diagonal tension braces, a queenpost and four inserted 20th-century casement windows. The west elevation features a central late 19th-century gabled cart entrance with tall double doors and a triple casement window in the gable. The roof has four diaper-patterned areas where roof tiles have been replaced by glazing, with the roof sweeping down over a later outshot which has two 20th-century casement windows to the eastern two bays and a splayed corner with a 20th-century door. The west side has early 19th-century two-storey stabling attached, built in Flemish bond brick to the ground floor and timber-framed with rendered infill to the upper floor, which was previously weatherboarded. There are 20th-century plank stable doors, first-floor hayloft doors and a leaded light window to the north. Attached to the north east is a 19th-century former farm building, weatherboarded on an English bond brick plinth with a renewed tiled roof and a fixed sash window facing east.

The north barn is a timber-framed barn of four bays with rendered infill on a brick plinth and tiled roof with several diaper-patterned areas where roof tiles have been replaced by glazing. The east side has two southern bays with pronounced curved tension braces above the midrail and four early 20th-century metal windows inserted during its conversion to a dairy. The penultimate bay to the north has late 19th-century full-height cart doors, and the northern bay has a higher midrail, a less curved tension brace and a further early 20th-century casement window. The north front has an 18th-century frame with diagonal braces and a sandstone and brick plinth, with three early 20th-century metal-framed casements. The west side northern bay has curved and diagonal tension braces, but the remainder of this side is obscured by an early 19th-century one-storey brick stable with tiled roof and a late 19th-century five-bay concrete implement shed.

Interior: The south barn has a box-framed wall frame with rendered infill, midrail and almost diagonal tension braces, with jowled upright posts. The roof structure features alternate queenposts and angled queen struts, purlins and pegged rafters. The eastern two bays retain a visible queenpost and angled queen strut, although the remainder of the frame is not visible internally.

The north barn has jowled upright posts with curved tension braces and alternate queenposts and angled tension braces to the roof structure. Part of the purlin is visible, but otherwise the roof structure and wall frame are not visible internally. The lower part of the wall was tiled when the barn was converted into a dairy.

History: The north barn, south barn, stabling and attached farm building to the east are all shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map. From the mid-19th century until 1905, one of the barns was used to provide accommodation for the local Congregational Church, with services originally having taken place in the kitchen of Great Tangley Manor.

These buildings were originally part of the home farm of Great Tangley Manor (Grade I) and have additional historic interest for local Nonconformity, having served as a place of worship for the Congregational Church.