Granary, Barns And Outbuildings At Higher Stadbury Farm

AVETON GIFFORD STADBURY SX 64 NE 4/30 Granary, barns and out- buildings at Higher Stadbury Farm GV II Barns, granary, stable and outbuildings enclosing stockyard. C18. Rubble, roofs variously slate, double-Roman tile, corrugated iron. Farm buildings form a 3-sided courtyard, abutting the south-west corner of Greystone Cottage (q.v. Stadbury Farmhouse). At right angles to front of farmhouse is hipped granary with garage door opening below, flight of stone steps on farmhouse side, to plank door. Two rows of pigeon openings at eaves. To left of granary, attached at corner, a 2-storey gabled building with loading bay in gable, rounded corner, small plank door to segmental head in otherwise plain wall, hipped outer end; stockyard front not inspected. To left, after throughway with 5-bar gate, a C19 2-storey building with corrugated iron roof; brick segmental head to door in gable end. On far side of stockyard are two large barns in one long run; the older, probably C18, and lower of the two, in rubble, has large plank opening under a blocked opening. The C19 unit, nearer the farmhouse, has double Roman tiles, is in 2 storeys, with various openings to segmental voussoirs, and inclu- ding a throughway. Back includes a projecting arm and a horse engine house. A diverse group, not fully inspected, forming an important architectural and historical adjunct to the farmhouse.

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