Large Barn To West Of Drew'S Farmhouse

BOXWELL WITH THE STREET (Leighterton Village ST 8291 west side) LEIGHTERTON 2/28 Large barn to west of Drew's Farmhouse (previously listed as barn dated 1800)

GV II 6.9.54 Barn. Datestone R + B/1800. Random rubble limestone; dressed quoins; stone slate roof. Seven-bay barn with central projecting porch to each side. West side: central gabled porch with timber lintel to doorway having relieving arch over and plank barn doors. Louvred loft opening above doorway and square lantern to columbarium with stone pigeon finial; ball finial to barn gables. Lean-to to left and right of porch, both with corrugated-iron roofs, that to left cut down from higher pitch and with rounded corners. Row of gablet vents to main ridge. East side: central gabled porch with datestone. North gable end: plain except for 10 rows of pigeon holes with perches. South gable end: roughcast rendered with single apex pigeon hole. Interior has 7-bay collar truss roof with lath and plaster between trusses; plastered walls. Indications of 2 inserted floors at south end, now removed. Lofts to each porch, that on west a columbarium. Forms part of group with Drew's Farmhouse, other barn and stables (q.v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)

Listing NGR: ST8226591046