Farm Buildings At Snows Farm

PAINSWICK STEANBRIDGE LANE SO 80 NE Slad 5/10001 Farm building at Snows Farm GV II Group of farm buildings, including barn, open-fronted cart-shed, and former stable. Early C18 or earlier barn with early/mid C19 additions. Coursed limestone rubble, corrugated iron, stone slate and concrete tile roofs. A long east-west range extending opposite the gable end of the wing of the farmhouse (qv), with a short return to the cart-shed at the right-hand end. The long central barn with gabled ends is set against the ground slope to the rear. The front has a square loading-door at eaves level to the left, above a small double lancet cut from a single stone and set in plain reveals, and a stable door; towards the right-hand end is a full-height pair of plank doors, with, to the left, a smaller plank door to a wood lintol. The barn and cart-shed have corrugated roofs. To the left, set back, is the former stable, with reinstated stone slate roof, with a pitching opening and stable door in the gable facing the farmhouse, and 2 small gabled casement dormers to the front. At the rear, on a short flight of steps, is a door under a gabled head. At the opposite end is the cart-shed, a small unit on an L-plan, with 4 short tapered round piers in coursed rubble; the rear and end walls in rubble. This is attached to a later C19 gabled shed, built independently, with concrete tiled roof and with doors to the east. The barn and this last outbuilding have very large open-textured stones as plinth and foundation. Interior: the barn has 4 bays of early trusses with 2 purlins and tie-beams, but one with queen-post strutting, and the rear wall has a blocked opening opposite the main doors, but half-depth only; this probably had a pair of loading doors at this upper level. The low cart-shed of narrow span has 3 and 2 bays of rough trusses with flush purlins and tie beams. With the adjacent farmhouse this range forms a good group with both hisotrical and architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SO8861608074