Bank Barn To North West Of Boswell Farmhouse

The following building shall be added to the list:-

SIDMOUTH SY 19 SW Bank Barn to NW of 12/10002 Boswell Farmhouse II GV

Bank barn. Early/mid C19, using timbers from earlier structure. Weatherboard over timber frame; rear wall of local rubble; gabled corrugated iron roof. PLAN: bank barn with threshing floor above ground-floor cattle shed, open-fronted and facing south into yard. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. South front has central plank double doors above open-fronted ground floor divided into 5 bays by circular stone columns with plain abaci. INTERIOR: similar row of columns back onto rear feeding passage. C19 timber framing with vertical studs of slight scantling and diagonal braces, including some reused timbers to floor; 5-bay late C17/early C18 collar-truss roof, with principal rafters tenoned and pegged into thin C19 wall posts. An unusual example, for this region, of a timber-framed farm building, the ground- floor columns being a particularly distinctive design.

Listing NGR: SY1450490078