Barn At Taynton House

SO 72 SW TAYNTON B4216 (west side)

7/240 Barn at Taynton House (formerly listed as part of 'Group 2.10.54 of three barns to the north of Taynton House')

GV II*

Barn; 1695 (datestone); irregular mixed English Garden Wall and Flemish bond brickwork; stone slate roof. Six-bay barn, 2 porches: later single bay extension on end. Main facade: bullnosed top to plinth, clasping corner pilaster buttress at ends, plain brick string course half-way up side walls. Left end 3 slit air vents below, 2 above, stone ball gable finial: to right porch with pilaster buttresses each side at front, double boarded doors, elliptical brick arch over, 2 slit air vents in gable over, stone plaque between, oval owl-hole above: stone ball gable finial. Right return single slit air vent each level, string course raised at back over elliptical-headed doorway, rebate for door. In centre 6 slit air vents below, 5 above. Random rubble stone walls project forward from porches either side of centre recess for lean- to, added probably C19 for yard cattle, removed late C20. To right second porch, as first, but doors rise to transom, with vertical boarding above to arch: left door in 2 sections. Beyond to right repeats left end. Lean-to against right gable, wide doorway cut in front: clasping corner buttress: stone copings to gables to extension. Left return 4 tiers of slit air vents, diminishing from 5 to 2, oval owl hole above. Interior, walls 450mm thick, air vents splayed internally with cambered brick heads. Stone-paved threshing floors: low inserted brick wall to right of right floor, timber top: boarded platform beyond. Extreme left bay brick paved, up about 100mm from threshing floor, with stone curb. Low, double doors to left threshing floor at rear with elliptical brick arch, 2 slit air vents above. Originally same on right, but brickwork over later replaced with boarding on timber studs. Tie-beam trusses with angle-struts, 2 pairs purlins, no ridge piece, wind braces to lower purlins from wall plate. Latin inscriptions on plaques. An important and little altered late C17 brick barn, forms group with 2 other brick farmbuildings and house; an unusual and important survival (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO7223222184