Barn, Friar'S Court

KEMPLEY - SO 63 SE 4/127 Barn, Friar's Court

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Barn. Probably C15 and C17, loft mid C19. Timber-framed on stone plinth, corrugated-iron roof. Six bay barn, slight bend in centre, in plan, loft in one end. To yard, double boarded doors to threshing floors to one panel below eaves, one bay in from each end. Plinth steps up to right in centre: boarded-over pitching hole on right. Weatherboarding: some inset boards between studs on left: some butt-jointed boarding on right. To field, plinth same, doors to eaves, one each set in 2 halves: boarded-over pitching hole to loft. Generally weatherboarding, butt-jointed boarding to one central bay. Interior: threshing floors stone paved. That on right flanked by cruck trusses, originally with collar and spurs, collars now missing. Inserted low brick plinth on left, timber sill above: loft inserted on right with shafting to drive feed preparation machinery. One pair purlins, square ridge. Centre truss hidden at time of inspection (1985) by hay. Left threshing floor low sill wall each side, timber top, angled braces rise to main posts, straight above to tie beam, central vertical post (one angled brace missing on right, one short above on left). Doors narrower than threshing floor, framing 3 panels high. Trusses tie beam, collar, angle struts: 2 pairs purlins, square ridge. Reported originally thatched.

Listing NGR: SO6692731819