Mants Barn Including Yard Walls

TQ 02 SW 10/10016

FITTLEWORTH BEDHAM Mants Barn, including yard walls

GV II

Barn and foldyard walls. C18 with C19 outshuts and foldyard wall. Barn timber-framed with weatherboard cladding on rubblestone plinth; outshuts and yard wall of rubble brought to course with brick plinth and quoins. Plain clay tile roof, half-hipped to barn. 3-bay barn with central opposed cart-entries, that at rear lower; outshuts added to outer bays at front under cat-slide roofs; yard walls project forward from outhouses and return to form rectangular foldyard. North front: barn retains original weatherboard inside outshuts; double board doors on old frames with old hinges and latch. Right outshut has door on right; left outshut has door to right return. Yard wall approx one and a half metres high with saddleback stone coping and gateways to each side and to centre of front wall, with re-used old hinges to right-hand wooden gate. Interior of barn: the timber frame survives virtually intact and comprises: sole-plate; mid-rail; wall-plate; tall close-set studs; wall-posts with large jowels, cyma-moulded at cart-entries, and arch braces to wall-plate and tie-beams; queen-post roof trusses with principal rafters; staggered butt purlins; rafters; plank ridge. The west wall-post at the north cart-entry has a base-post with mortice for base-board. Manger inside right outshut. A good-quality traditional Cl 8 barn which with its added outshuts and foldyard reflects changing agricultural practices of the C18 and C19.

Listing NGR: TQ0193822277