TITHE BARN AT BARTON FARM

TITHE BARN AT BARTON FARM, POUND LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1184239
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: TITHE BARN AT BARTON FARM
Statutory Address:: TITHE BARN AT BARTON FARM, POUND LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1184239
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: TITHE BARN AT BARTON FARM
Statutory Address 1:: TITHE BARN AT BARTON FARM, POUND LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TITHE BARN AT BARTON FARM, POUND LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bradford-on-Avon
National Grid Reference:: ST 82317 60433

Details

1. POUND LANE 5411 (South Side)

Tithe Barn at Barton Farm ST 8260 4/2 18.4.52.

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2. Probably early C14. Coursed rubble and ashlar. High pitched stone-tiled roof with projecting eaves. Approximately 168ft long by 30ft wide. Divided into 14 bays. At 5th and 10th bays are large gabled porches on north side and smaller ones on south side. Single-stage buttresses with deep weatherings in series of offsets at bay intervals; coupled buttresses at corners and at angles of north porches. Main and porch gables have carved stone finials. The north porches are similar, both having a wide, segmental archway with chamfered mouldings and dripmould. Above each arch is a pointed relieving arch with a cross-shaped loop above. Side walls of north porches have small doorways with chamfered mouldings. The main north and south walls of barn have plain loops. Cross-shaped loops to each main end gable. All loops have wide internal splays, those in main gables with rere-arches. Each south porch has a large square-headed doorway with timber lintels and pointed relieving arches. Projecting plinth to whole building. The barn has its original massive timber roof. 14 bays with two true crucks and 11 two-tier crucks in which the blade passes the tie and engages the upper crucks. Arched wind-braces secure the elements of the roof. The barn contains specimens of early agricultural implements and machinery. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument and in the guardianship of the Department of the Environment.

All the listed buildings in Pound Lane form a group.

Listing NGR: ST8231860434

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Legacy System number:: 312656
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.