Barn And Engine House Immediately West Of Upper Cheddon Farm

ST22NW CHEDDON FITZPAINE UPPER CHEDDON Barn and Engine House 439- 0/5/10003 immediately west of Upper Cheddon Farm

GV II

Barn and attached horse-engine house. C18. Stone rubble. Asbestos tile roof with gabled ends, hipped over the engine house. PLAN: 5-bay barn with threshing floor in centre bay with porch on the east front. Polygonal open-sided horse-engine house attached to the right [north] end. EXTERIOR: Barn has symmetrical east front with large gabled porch at centre with double-doors and boarded gable; to right and left doorways inserted high up in the front wall. At rear [west] large doorway at centre now boarded over and small doorway to left. Horse-engine house on north end, open-sided with large stone rubble piers supporting roof, the east front pier with pronounced batter; of the five open bays the two bays at the back have been blocked. INTERIOR: Barn has raised floor and original 5-bay roof with tie-beam trusses with butt-purlins, tenoned diagonally-set ridge-piece and complete set of common-rafters; 'porch roof is also intact. Engine-house has large tie-beam and butt-purlins to the principals and intact common-rafters.

Listing NGR: ST2316628505