Small Barn And Cattle Shed, Preece Moor Farm

SO 61 NE LONGHOPE - at NGR 50677199

6/104 Small barn and cattle shed, Preece Moor Farm

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Field barn and adjoining cattle shed; early and mid C19; flat, unsquared sandstone rubble, no quoins to barn, pecked ashlar quoins to cattle shed: slate roof, part corrugated iron to shed. 3-bay barn, with attached 3-bay shed for cattle, at right angles. Yard face central double doors rising to wallplate, single slit air vent on each side, door set up ramp from yard. On right low down a small doorway, stonework to one side partly collapsed. Inside right-hand bay set some 600mm below rest of barn, originally with 750mm wall between it and threshing floor. Angle-strut pine trusses: blocked pitch-hole in left gable. Cattle shed three square timber posts forming front, with two tie-beam trusses inside: hipped-roof at end away from barn. Two timber partitions between cows survive, with timber ties. Good example of a field barn and associated shed; yard wall survives intact.

Listing NGR: SO6772219975