Two Barns And Loose Box, Taddington Manor

STANWAY TADDINGTON SP 03 SE 4/131 Two barns and loose box, Taddington Manor (part formerly listed as part of 4.7.60 Taddington Farmhouse and barn)

GV II

Two barns. 1632 (datestone), C18, C19. Coursed, squared stone to main barn, squared rubble lesser one, stone slate roof, back slopes tiled. Five-bay barn with central porch one side; 3-bay barn on right end, with projecting loose box. Facing house: main barn, plinth, 2-light mullion window on left; deep porch, front wall extended each side as buttress: double, sheet metal doors, chamfered arris, plain impost blocks, 4-centred arch with dated keystone. Timber lintel inside just below crown of arch. Parapet gable, cross-gablet apex with fleur-de-lys finial. To right wall hidden by lean-to, not of special interest. Parapet gables to barn, cross-gablet apices. To right, slightly lower barn, small boarded door with stone lintel in blocking to threshing-floor doors. Projecting wing on right, boarded stable door in gable, square opening above, both with stone lintels. Interior: main barn tie beam trusses, angled struts to collars, 2 pairs butt purlins, curved wind braces to upper purlins over threshing floor, missing (1986) on side opposite porch. Struts to truss on left of threshing floor also missing. Porch 2 bays long, queen-strut trusses. Dates and scratch markings on stonework by inner end porch: cupboard recess, adjoining. Bays filled with silos. Small barn inserted lofts to both ends, one removed before 1986; queen strut trusses, 2 pairs purlins, plank ridge. Forms group with house (q.v.). Said to contain reset C12 window. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds, 1970)

Listing NGR: SP0865331218