Tithe Barn, Ashleworth Court

ASHLEWORTH QUAY LANE SO 8025-8125 7/18 Tithe Barn, Ashleworth Court (formerly listed as Tithe Barn, 10-1-55 Ashleworth Quay) GV II* Barn. Circa 1500, for Abbot Newland of Bristol; altered C19. Coursed, squared blue lias, squared stone dressings, stone slate roof. Six-unit barn, with 2 porches on one side. To road, diagonally-set buttresses at all corners: wall-plate and heavy tilting fillet exposed. On left boarded opening under eaves: buttressed porch, double boarded doors, one in 2 sections, heavy iron hinges, chamfer to jambs, heavy cambered timber lintel, 2 square holes in gable. Centre section with one square-set buttress, 2 slit air vents each side. Right porch as left: right end 2 slit air vents; former window under eaves on left boarded over. Left return corner buttresses (right rebuilt mid C20); glazed opening to right of centre, flat head, stone voussoirs: boarded doorway above, heavy stone lintel. Eleven square holes in gable, stone quatrefoil in square in centre. Parapet gable with cross-gablet apex, as to porches: right end gable replaced with weatherboarding. Interior: left threshing floor stone paved: rear doors lower than to road. Air vents splayed internally, timber lintels: square holes scattered on walls. Scars of original central cross wall, also inserted low walls to right threshing floor, since removed. Roof 10 bays: trusses against gables: truss queen strut, centre timbers in centre one; 2 pairs purlins, curved windbraces (some missing), plank ridge. Mortices at ends of tie beams for wall posts. Right end additional windows: slots for floor at eaves level to 2 bays, collar level at one. Left end walled off in brick mid C19; blocked door lower level, boarded door upper to threshing floor. Lower floor stabling lofted over for feed preparation, further loft at eaves level. C17, C18 and early C19 names and dates cut by left threshing floor in porch. Lean-to on rear not of special interest. Converted to large cowhouse in C19,cowstalls since removed. An important medieval survival, forming group with church and Court (q.v.). Ancient monument Gloucester No 118, and owned by the National Trust. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970; photographs at NMR)

Listing NGR: SO8178825208