Barn, Cowhouse And Cartshed, Park'S Farm

SO 72 NW NEWENT LEDBURY ROAD (west side)

3/161 Barn, cowhouse and cartshed, Park's Farm

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Barn, cowhouse, cartshed and granary over: early to mid C18, early C19. Barn timber-framed, butt-jointed boarding, on roughly- squared rubble stone plinth: cowhouse brick rear wall, open front, timber posts; cartshed random rubble stone, Flemish-bond brickwork above. All roofs tiled. L-plan group, barn with porch, 6-bay cowhouse at right-angles, cartshed at end. Barn facade to yard; double boarded door to left of centre, small door in right half; plinth on right 1.4m high, timber-framing above, probably original boarding, vertical jointing of boards. Left ground drops, top of plinth and wall above as on right: door cut in plinth, 3 slit air vents. Right return, later door on left: shuttered opening gable, boarding as main face. Interior: stone paved threshing floor, leading to porch opposite: brick sill walls each side, timber top, braces to main wall posts: opening on right only, at yard end. Timber-framing 3-panel high, wind braces nailed: 2 bays on left, floor sunk, 3 on right, end 2 later loft, stair access; shafting for driving barn machinery remains below. Collar and angle-strut trusses, on main posts only at gables and threshing floor, otherwise on wall plate, stud under in top panel only. Two pairs purlins, ridge plank. On left 6-bay cowhouse, open front, timber posts on stone bases; king-post trusses. At end 3-bay cartshed, stone wall to yard, brick first floor, dentil eaves, doorway in centre in dormer, boarded cheeks and gable: steps up missing, door boarded with cat hole. Left return ground lower, open to cartshed, central timber post, repeated inside. First floor boarded timber-framing, boarded door and shuttered window. Lean-to to barn on left not of special interest. A C18 barn with later related farm buildings forming a good and little altered group.

Listing NGR: SO7135628468