Winnycroft Farmhouse: Barn Approximately 20 Metres To West

GLOUCESTER

SO81SE WINNYCROFT LANE, Matson 844-1/6/476 Winnycroft Farmhouse: Barn approx 20m to west

GV II

Threshing barn and stables now storage outbuilding. Late C18. Weatherboarded timber-framed on limestone coursed rubble plinth with chamfered cap. Corrugated metal sheet roof. Rectangular plan of 3 bays with end extension bays. EXTERIOR: opposing central boarded C19 double full height doors, boarded stable door and gable end loft window. Extension to south end is C18 stables, weatherboarded timber-frame with plain clay tile roof. INTERIOR: twin tenoned-purlin roof, original rafters with long straight wind-braces half-lapped over, battens for thatch. Interal simple collar and tie-beam trusses with straight braces, external trusses of collar with vertical struts above and below, wall frames below tie beams and side wall frames of full height vertical struts with long straight tension braces. Inserted loft floor in north bay. Brick floor in south bay and stone slab floor in north bay. The extension interior has 3-bay twin tenoned-purlin roof, trusses with straight tie-beam and collar trusses with external truss having additional vertical struts, 3 C19 stall partitions. One of a good late C18 group at Winnycroft Farm.

Listing NGR: SO8555714748