Barn (Formerly Old Kitchen) Approximately 60 Metres To North-North-West Of The Garden House

SX 46 NE 3/48 21.3.67

BUCKLAND MONACHORUM BUCKLAND MONACHORUM Barn (formerly old kitchen) approximatley 60 metres to north-north-west of The Garden House

GV II

Barn, originally kitchen to vicarage. Circa early C16. Stone rubble walls. Gable ended thatched roof, hipped over stair projection. This building was the kitchen to a larger complex, mostly demolished, which documentary evidence suggests was the former vicarage. It consisted of a large room on the ground floor with a massive fireplace at the gable end and a newel stair on the front wall in a projection leading to the room above. The slit windows at the gable end suggest that the building may have been converted to a barn and certainly its use degenerated to a barn from the late C18 onwards. At some subsequent stage the floor was removed from the 1st floor room. 1 storey originally 2. Asymmetrical front with large stair projection to right of centre with curved front wall and straight side walls and has hollow chamfered granite framed light on front wall. To the right of the stair projection on 1st floor is similar light. To the left on ground floor is wide doorway with C20 plank doors, probably an enlargement of the original. 2 slit openings at right-hand gable end obscured externally by foliage. Interior: Massive fireplace in left-hand gable end occupies almost full width of room and has chamfered dressed granite arch now supported at the centre by a later stone pier. 2 stone ovens at left-hand side. Square-headed granite doorway with double chamfer leads to stone newel stairs. C20 king post roof structure. Source: D.R.O.

Listing NGR: SX4963668334