Barn To West Of Gartage Hall

GLOUCESTER

SO81NE HUCCLECOTE ROAD, Hucclecote 844-1/4/461 (North side (off)) 07/05/91 No.113A Barn to west of Gartage Hall (Formerly Listed as: HUCCLECOTE ROAD No.113A)

GV II

Threshing barn. Mid to late C17, minor C19 additions and alterations. Timber frame on stone rubble plinth, waney-edge weatherboard cladding, brick additions; end-gabled slate roof weatherproofed with pitch. PLAN: barn forms the far side of a yard entered from the road; five bays with central, gabled waggon porch projecting into yard, and opposing waggon doors in outer wall; to left of porch a C19 lean-to brick addition with cat-slide roof against the inner wall, and a C19 lean-to addition against the right-hand gable-end wall. EXTERIOR: the framing mostly concealed by weatherboard cladding and later additions; in the front of the waggon porch a pair of full-height vertical boarded doors (clad with corrugated iron); on the outer side the opening for the opposing doors has been infilled. INTERIOR: jowelled bay posts with angle braces to the principal beams of the trusses; in some bays the wall framing has an intermediate rail at high level and in the panels above the original infill of vertical staves laced with laths; double purlin roof with trenched purlins, each truss with angle struts to the lower purlin level and a collar tie at the upper purlin level; timber braced strays on each side of the threshing floor. Barn and yard may be part of former farmstead which included the former farmhouse to west now called Gartage Hall (qv).

Listing NGR: SO8742917353