Description

ST03NW
375/4/10007

OLD CLEEVE
STAMBOROUGH
Barn immediately NW of Stamborough Farmhouse

II

Shippon/barn. Circa early C17. Slate rubble. Gable-ended roof clad in corrugated sheet steel.
PLAN: 5-bays, built into hillside with opposing doorways in second bay from lower N end. In about C19 a loft floor was built in the lower end bay with a cider press underneath.
EXTERIOR: East front has doorway to right of centre with timber lintel and original chamfered wooden frame with Tudor arch head. Similar opposing doorframe on west side, but masonry to left [N] of doorway collapsed. Ventilation slits in end gables.
INTERIOR: Complete 5-bay roof structure with side-pegged jointed cruck trusses with mortice and tenoned cranked collars, two tiers of trenched side purlins, and trenched diagonally-set ridgepiece; end hips survive. Common-rafters and thatch battens are intact on east side, and some of the common-rafters remain on the west side, re-used longitudinally spanning the bays. The building also retains its stone floor. Ladder to loft at lower end, with cider-press under.

Listing NGR: ST0292236792

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657299

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