THE TITHE BARN
THE TITHE BARN, MIDDLE LITTLETON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1350092
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- THE TITHE BARN
- Statutory Address:
- THE TITHE BARN, MIDDLE LITTLETON

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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1350092
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- THE TITHE BARN
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TITHE BARN, MIDDLE LITTLETON
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE TITHE BARN, MIDDLE LITTLETON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North and Middle Littleton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 07987 47069
Details
SP 04 NE NORTH & MIDDLE LITTLETON MIDDLE LITTLETON
2/20
30.7.59 The Tithe Barn
GV
I
Tithe Barn early C14 built for Abbey of Evesham. Blue lias stone with Cotswold stone
dressings and stone tile roof. 136 ft long, 30 ft wide and 40 ft high. Originally
2 large projecting gabled cart entrances on South side and to smaller gabled rear
entrances. Only the Western pair, front and rear survive. Coped gables with ornate
clover-leaf finials, 2 original, 2 copies. Central buttresses to end gables,
buttresses between bays and long ventilating loops. Eleven bays, 8 large raised base
crucks carrying upper collar-and-tie-beam trusses. At each end an aisled bay with
collar-and-tie-beam truss carried on aisle post. Triple purlin roof. Wind bracing
throughout. Attached at each end C19 additions of minor interest; at West end L-plan
stable range with small barn attached, half-hipped plain tile roof; at East end a low
slate roofed range coming forward with 2-storey barn attached.
Horn & Charles: Journal of Soc of Arch Historians 25 1966 4 221-39.
Listing NGR: SP0798747069
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 147612
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
'Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain' in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, (1966), 221-39
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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