Barn And Adjoining Cowhouse Or Stable At Babdown Farm

BEVERSTON A4135 ST 89 SW (south side) 6/24 Barn and adjoining cowhouse or stable at Babdown Farm II GV

Large barn and adjoining cowhouse or stables to west. Dated 1847, built for Robert Stayner Holford, possibly by Lewis Vulliamy. Coursed stone, stone slate roof. Barn has twin gabled cart entries facing in to yard with brick gables inset with single stone giving initials "RSH" to left and date to right, both with timber lintels and renewed double timber doors. Roof sweeps down to each side of entries and between in catslide, with stable door and 2 long slit vents to outer side and central 3-bay animal shelter with cylindrical rubble stone piers dividing the bays. Opposed similar but projecting cart entries on rear with wooden lean-to between, and cambered-head pitch hole with slit vents to gable ends. Single-storey L-shape cowhouse or stable block has 7 doorways mostly with stable doors and alternating on slightly irregular pattern with shallow wide openings, some glazed. Interiors not accessible. Part of a complete and largely unaltered contemporary farmyard complex, probably one of several built in the area by Vulliamy, linked by walls (q.v.) and with stable block and cowhouses (q.v.) to north east originally linked by gateway of which piers only survive, gate missing.

Listing NGR: ST8440894481