Barn And Adjoining Farmbuildings Approximately 15 Metres To South East Of Flitton Barton

NORTH MOLTON SS 73 SW 10/111 Barn and adjoining farmbuildings - approximately 15 metres to south east of Flitton Barton GV II Barn and adjoining farmbuildings. Mid to late C19. Uncoursed stone rubble, with red-brick arched heads to some windows and doors. Gable-ended Welsh-slate roofs. Plan: L-plan range with barn aligned north-south and range of shippons with lofts over projecting at right angles to west. Farmyard to south. Exterior: Barn facing west with boarded loft door to left, ground-floor window to left with flat stone-arched head, and cart entrance to right (without doors) with wooden lintel. Two-leaf boarded door at rear with slightly segmental brick arched head. Gabled waterwheel house projecting at rear of left-hand end of barn, with doorway in side wall. Range of shippons with boarded loft doors, and ground-floor louvred windows and boarded doors, all with brick segmental-arched heads. Interior of barn: 5-bay roof with C19 bolted king-post trusses, 2 rebuilt. Water- wheel house with wheel pit, but wheel removed. No other machinery associated with waterwheel was noted at time of survey (Survey 1987). This is one of a small group of barns in the area which formerly had water-driven threshing machinery (c.f. West Park Farm). This building forms part of a large farmstead group at Flitton Barton (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SS7138930906