Barn To East South East Of Colleton Manor

CHULMLEIGH SS 61 SE 5/10 Barn east south east of 20.2.67 Colleton Manor - II

Barn. Circa late C17 with C19 outshuts. Plastered cob with sedimentary stone rubble plinth. Some of the walls at the west end have been rebuilt in stone rubble. Thatched roof with hipped left hand (west) end and half-hipped right hand end. Part of the roof at the right hand end has collapsed (at time of survey 1988). Plan: Long range built into steeply sloping site, the lower end to the west (left). It has 2 threshing floors, one to right of centre and the other towards the lower left end. Late C19 outshuts on front to left of centre and at the rear. Exterior: At the front the 2 cart-entrances have their original chamfered doorframes with mason's mitres the chamfers ogee-stopped at the centre of the lintel for the central post; old plank doors; there is the remains of the thatched canopy over the right hand cart-entrance. There are some ventilation slits with stone surrounds high up in the front and back walls and 2 in the right hand (east) gable end have timber lining. At the front and rear late C19 stone rubble outskirts. Interior: The original cob sections of the walls are plastered. Over three quarters of the original roof survives in a complete state but about 4 bays towards the west end has fallen in. The roof has straight principal rafters set in the wall tops on pads, the apexes mortice and tenon jointed and the collars lapped and pegged to the face of the principals. The 3 tiers of purlins are set on the backs of the principals and the diagonal ridgepiece is supported in the crutch formed by the projecting tenon of the apex joint. Most of the common rafters and battens are intact.

Listing NGR: SS6696914638