Description

TL 32 NE BUNTINGFORD HARE STREET ROAD
(south side)

4/9 Barn at Alswick Hall
30m to NW of Hall
22.2.67 (formerly listed as Barn
as Alswick Hall)
GV II

Barn, now a barn with stable in E part. C17, disguised as
completely a stable block by new brick S front and end walls in
early C18, later lean-to additions at E end. Timber frame on red
brick sill, weatherboarded on N with some stepped painted brick
infill at lower parts. Red brick chequered with black headers on
S and E, painted over at W end. Steep hipped old red tile roof.
A long building of about 9 bays with the 7 western bays in barn
use and a wall cutting off the stable in the E part with its
inserted floor. Projecting hipped N porch to barn. S side
facing the Hall has paired vertical slits at 2 levels to ventilate
the barn but also 3 groups of openings under segmental arches of
a wide door flanked by 2 windows as if the whole building were
stables. Hipped louvred dormers on the S roofslope. Original
butt-purlin roof with one purlin to each slope and rafters
tennoned into it. Collar and outswept queen-post trusses. Tie-
beams on heavy jowled posts with shaped chin to jowls. Straight
wind braces only in porch-bay. Mortices of a former closed truss
dividing the barn into 2 parts.

Listing NGR: TL3770529456

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26394651

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability