Description

SU 51 NE
1879/4/10010
4.2.98

SHEDFIELD
WINCHESTER ROAD
Waltham Chase
Barn attached to Forest Farmhouse

GV
II

Barn. C17 and C18 with C19 and C20 alterations. C17 timber frame; C18 walls of red brick with some glazed headers in English, Flemish and Flemish garden wall bond (3:1). Plain tile roof originally hipped at both ends, now only at north end. 5 bays, the outer bays, under hips, being ha1f-width. Double-aisled with opposed central cart entries. West elevation: plinth tall cart entry has strap-hinged board doors below vertically-boarded gable with 2-light 4-pane window. East elevation: to left of board cart-entry doors are three C20 raking buttresses. Interior: good quality timber frame of large scantling timbers has jowelled posts (now on brick plinths) , those flanking rear cart-entry with gun-stock jowels, all with braces to arcade plates and tie-beams, some to the braces curved; raking queen posts, some of them curved; clasped purlins; coupled rafters; arched wind braces to central bay. At south end there is a door into Forest Farmhouse (qv), to which the barn is attached, although the barn appears to have been free-standing originally.

Listing NGR: SU5610216325

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537542

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5