Barn With Adjoining Stable And Animal Shelter At The Manor House

DIDMARTON THE STREET ST 8287 (south side) 15/88 Barn with adjoining stable and animal shelter at the Manor House GV II

Large barn with adjoining stables and animal shelter. Mid/late C18, part of the stables possibly being an earlier building visible in Kip's engraving of early C18. Random coursed rubble stone, with alternating flush quoins to barn, stone slate roof, half-hipped to rear wing of barn. Barn has central projecting hipped cart entry on north side with timber lintel and double timber doors and 2 tiers of 2 slit vents to each side. Opposed raking entry with double timber doors has lean-to on right with double Roman tiles and adjoins rear wing on left. Square vents to gable ends and slit vents to lean-to with opening to left with timber lintel. Main barn of 7 bays, king post trusses with 2 trenched purlins, and rear wing of 3 bays, collar and tie beam trusses, joined on south end to single-storey animal shelter of 9 open bays and one south end blind bay with double Roman tile roof on inward-facing slope and partition wall between bays 3 and 4 from north. Small stable range in 2 sections adjoining barn on east end with small central ridge stack in section nearer barn and scattered openings on both sides, some blocked to north, with some large chamfered beams on ground floor.

Listing NGR: ST8222887408