Barn, Cowhouse And Stable, Whitehall Farm

SO 72 SE RUDFORD WHITEHALL LANE

8/223 Barn, cowhouse and stable, Whitehall Farm

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Barn, cowhouse, pigsty and former stable; third quarter Cl9, for Price estate. English-bond brickwork to stable and pigsty: otherwise weatherboarding painted black, red-brick plinth with blue brick capping to barn, door frames (except to cowhouse), windows, louvres, bargeboards painted white; tiled roof. L-plan range, barn with porch forms one side, 6-bay cowhouse at right angles, 3- bay stable on end, last lofted. Facades to courtyard: stable on left, boarded stable door centre, 4-pane rectangular fanlight over, low pointed blue brick arch, stone keystone. Either side a window, stone sill, 3 glazed panes below, louvres above, arch as door. Gabled brick dormer above in centre, 2-light casement window, otherwise as below: fretwork bargeboards, timber finial. Similar bargeboards to gables; door in left return to first floor, probably granary originally. Original brick causeway in front of stable, extends around 2 built sides of yard. On right cowhouse, slightly set back: short, brick section with boarded door on left, rest weatherboarded: single boarded door, casement window, double boarded door. Above 2 large triangular louvred vents at ridge, plain bargeboards. Interior: front originally open, timber posts carrying wallplate. One bay in angle between barn and porch: brick paved floor, stone edging to drainage channel. Rear wall removed when cowhouse enlarged: king-post trusses, with iron bolt, 1 pair purlins, plank ridge. On right barn at right angles; double, boarded doors in 2 sections to porch, boarded gable over, decorative bargeboards, iron finial and weathervane. To right lean-to with catslide roof against side of barn, 2 looseboxes, each with square window on left, adjustable louvres with orignal iron mechanism, boarded door to right. Right gable decorative bargeboards, timber finial: large, triangular vent in gable with louvres, upper faces curved. Lean-to pigsty against gable of barn: boarded door in end, arch as for stable, wavy bargeboard over. Two low openings in side, heads as door: single yard with timber paling, gate and stone trough. At end a gabled section, door and bargeboards as pigsty, 3 harness hooks inside. Barn interior 5 bay, long braces in balloon wall framing; inserted lofts. Main posts without jowls, curved braces to tie beams of queen post trusses: king post truss to porch: plank ridge. A very complete and well-preserved farm stead, of third quarter C19, best surviving example of number in Rudford, Tibberton and Taynton altered or rebuilt by Price estate.

Listing NGR: SO7686021224