Barn About 20 Metres South West Of Old Warren Farmhouse

ST 77 NE TORMARTON C.P. ACTON TURVILLE ROAD (south side)

6/231 Barn about 20 metres south west of Old Warren Farmhouse

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Barn. Mid C18, by Thomas Wright (working for 4th Duke of Beaufort at Badminton 1748-56). Coursed rubble with stone dressings and quoins, stone tiled roof. Gothick style. Central high cart entry with half-hipped roof, mock arrow-slit with circular ends to each side with ventilation slit open in centre. Right return has embattled curved corner turrets with blind arrow-slits, raised central parapet wall with 3 merlons and blind bull's eye at upper level, 3 cross-slits at ground floor level; single storey gabled attached wing with roof missing at time of survey (October 1984). Left return as right, with owlhole above oculus. Rear has cart entry with cambered timber lintel, 2 blocked ventilation slits to right and one to left, large C20 lean-to addition of no special architectural interest. Interior: 7-bay roof, principal rafters with plated yokes. 2 rows of purlins and scissors trusses. Great picturesque landscape value, part of designed landscape of Beaufort estate in C18. (Sources: Harris, E. : articles in Country Life, August and 9th September, 1971).

Listing NGR: ST7913279760