Description

SU 08 NE
8/300
17.1.55

PURTON
CHURCH END
Tithe Barn at Manor House
(formerly listed as Manor House together with Tithe Barn and Pigeon House)

GV
II

Barn and farm buildings, now outbuildings and 2 dwellings. C15-
C16, and C19. Limestone rubble, walls to inner court half timbered
with patterned brick noggings. Stone slate roof. West wing of 13-
bays, inner wall stone to three-quarters height, with timber
framing above. Cart entrances in 4th and 10th-bays, the latter
with hipped roof projecting on brackets forming open shelter. The
south wing against road to church comprises 6 timber framed and 4
stone bays, the latter with 2 gables to the rear, north, face and
containing stables, and 2 dwellings being C19 conversions. Timber
framing has vertical studs and corner braces. South elevation has
gable of west wing at its west end with C17 stone mullioned
windows, and originally 2 tiers of 15 slit vents, some now replaced
with C19 stone mullioned windows. Blocked cart entrance at east
end. An imposing building of considerable group value.

Listing NGR: SU0955287193

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26274183

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Recommended Books

• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)