Courtyard Of Farm Buildings About 20 Metres West Of Druid House

SX 77 SW ASHBURTON DRUID

849-1/1/245 Courtyard of farm buildings about 20m W of Druid House

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Barn and attached outbuildings. Early C19 (date WFW/1815 inscribed on plaster panel in barn). stone rubble. Corrugated iron and asbestos roofs. U-shaped plan, with bank barn on north, lofted shippon on west, single-storeyed pigsties on east. Low wall on south. Exterior: Bank barn has 4 shippon doors facing courtyard with timber lintel over narrow plank door to threshing floor above; brick pigeon-holes under eaves. pigsties have old plank doors with strap-hinges. Shippon has timber lintels over loft and ground-floor doorways, and a row of pigeon holes under eaves. Threshing floor doorway to rear of barn has timber brackets and lintels to lean-to hood. Also to rear of barn is a 2-bay cartshed with granite orthostats to wallplate. INTERIOR: barn has plastered walls and 8-bay collar truss roof with halved and pegged apex and trenched purlins. Druid Farmhouse (not included), to which these buildings relate, lies approx 30 metres to west. A good example of a dated bank barn, with attached farmbuildings making a U-plan typical of improved layouts of the period.

Listing NGR: SX7437471126