Manor Farm Barn is a Grade I listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A Mid-C16 Barn. 1 related planning application.
Manor Farm Barn
- WRENN ID
- shifting-plinth-sepia
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Barn
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farm Barn is a tithe barn built in the mid-16th century, featuring a reused roof from the late 15th century. It is constructed from banded knapped flint and stone, with ashlar dressings, and has weather boarded gabled ends on both the barn and porch roofs. The roof is covered in 19th-century tiles arranged in a chequerboard pattern.
The barn has a cruciform plan with six bays and off-centre, opposing porches. Its exterior includes a continuous chamfered stone plinth, and the bays are defined by two-stage, offset buttresses, with no buttresses at the corners. Each bay and the end walls feature chamfered rectangular ventilation slits with ashlar surrounds. The west wall has square window openings flanking the ventilation slit. The tall, off-centre porches have pitched roofs with weather-boarded gables. The threshing doors are set on oak jambs with cambered oak lintels. The south porch has square-headed doorways on either side, which have been blocked with 18th-century brickwork.
The interior, not inspected in 2017, features arch braces and wall pieces that rise from stone corbels to support plain mid-16th-century hammer beams. These hammer beams hold late 15th-century principal rafters connected by cambered collar beams, along with hammer posts, inclined struts, and arch braces to the collar. Small struts connect the collar to the principal rafters, and many trusses retain collar ties near the apex. Most structural members, including the principal rafters and purlins, are decorated with roll-mouldings, ogee-mouldings, and hollow-chamfers, while the secondary wind braces between the principal rafters and purlins are unmoulded. One truss towards the west end incorporates a mid-16th-century raised cruck. The internal walls are lined with clunch and feature brick and stone repairs.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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