The Old Tithe Barn And Attached Boundary Wall

SO 9527 BISHOP'S CLEEVE A435 (east side)

16/26 The Old Tithe Barn and attached boundary wall 4.7.60

GV II

Former tithe barn, now used as hall, and adjoining wall. Probably early C15, altered and restored in the early 1950s. Coursed squared and dressed limestone with some random large blocks of finely squared and dressed stone; stone slate roof. Rectangular main body, formerly C15m longer on the south with a projecting porch on the west side; small C20 single-storey extensions at the north-west corner; wall runs south from the south-east corner for about 15m. C20 raking buttresses to the west side of the main body, further buttresses with offsets to the gable ends and porch. West front with projecting porch to the right; former double-width entrance to porch now blocked with coursed squared and dressed limestone and a large C20 twelve-light window with stone mullions and transoms; weatherboarded gable; stone-mullioned cross window to the right-hand return. Large early plank door with studs to the left of the porch; single-light casement with a wooden surround to the right. C20 four-light stone-mullioned casement and a single- light casement and small blocked doorway to the left. Three graded C19 windows with segmental-pointed heads and a relieving arch at the left gable end, similar windows at the south gable end over a segmental-pointed entrance containing C20 glazed double doors. East-facing elevation: three C20 three-light stone-mullioned casements; two C20 four-light eaves dormers one of which is cut by a double fire door. Double-width entrance with timber lintel towards the left with four C20 top-opening steel casements. Flat gable-end coping with roll-cross saddles; weathervane at the north gable end. Interior now contains first floor, and subdivided ground floor. Four bays, 4 raised cruck trusses which each terminate at a collar beam with arched bracing. Struts from arched brace to collar and to cruck blade. Upper collar beam and halved apex. Two trusses with cruck spurs. Triple purlins with curved wind bracing, the lower bracing crossing the lower purlins. Coursed squared and dressed limestone wall at the south-east corner c2.5m height with red tile capping, screens view of factory to rear. (Bryan Little, From Bishop's barn to village hall, Glos Countryside, 1952-5; and D. Verey, The Buildings of England, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1980)

Listing NGR: SO9576127578