Flint Barn At Downley Farm On The East Side Of Farmyard

SU 89 NW WEST WYCOMBE RURAL PLOMER GREEN LANE (West Side, off) 1/220 Flint Barn at Downley Farm on the East Side of farmyard

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Barn. Probably late C18, with later addition, for the Dashwood Estate. Flint with brick bands, pilaster strips, quoins and quoined surrounds. Addition of weatherboard on brick plinth. Plain tile roof, half-hipped at north end. 5 bays with 2-way addition at south end. Central opposed cart-entries with board doors, that on east side in gabled, weatherboard, midstray; that on west (yard) side having stable door to left and wide blocked entrance on right. Two tiers of slit vents. West (yard) elevation of addition has stable door flanked by small-pane windows with 2 boarded-up openings above. Interior: from tile beams curved principal rafters rise to collars; 2 tiers of clasped through purlins; intermediate collars; old rafters; no ridge-piece; roof originally ½-hipped also at south end where the gable was of weatherboard with hatch below. Important building in the farmyard group, of which the farmhouse (qv West Wycombe Rural CP) is dated 1819.

Listing NGR: SU8472195281