Tithe Barn At Place Farm

TISBURY COURT STREET ST 92 NE (north side)

5/212 Tithe Barn at Place Farm 6.1.66 GV I

Tithe barn to monastic grange. C15. Rubble stone and dressed limestone, thatched roof, formerly stone slates, with coped verges and staddlestones. Thirteen bays. Central opposing gabled porches with angle buttresses and double chamfered pointed doorways, planked doors, coped verge with finial, west side has C19 Tudor-arched double planked doors either side, north side has square-headed planked doors either side of central porch, either side of porches are 6 buttresses with offsets and 5 tall arrow loop vents. South and north gables have central buttress with arrow loops either side and above. Interior has 13 bays with raised cruck trusses, each with arch- braced collar and upper collar, some are cranked, braced saddle to apex. Three tiers of through purlins, some straight windbracing retained. Reputedly the largest tithe barn in England, though not the longest. Together with the farmhouse and gatehouses (q.v.), this barn is part of one of the finest surviving groups of monastic grange buildings in England. Owned by the Abbess of Shaftesbury until the Dissolution. Ancient Monument, Wiltshire, No 242. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975; Country Life, 10 May 1919)

Listing NGR: ST9517329851