Description

AYLESHAM RATLING
TR 25 SW
2/6 Donkey wheel about
15 metres north of
Ratling Court
GV II
Donkey wheel and housing. C18. Timber with thatched roof. The wheel with a
vertical shaft and drum with the upper and lower harness beams staggered and
joined by a timber harness. The central truss of the machinery also supports
the circular thatched housing with wall posts probably originally with
weather boarded sides. A timber framed and thatched open sided pentice runs
from the wheel house to the north wing of Ratling Court consisting of 3 bays
with brick and cobbled floor, clasped purlin roof and with various hooks and
wooden wall frames for certain bucolic practices.

Listing NGR: TR2399053708

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26324044

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)