Description

COLBURN COLBURN
SE 19 NE
3/53 Courthouse to east of
Colburn Hall
(formerly listed as Barn
at Colburn Hall)
4.2.69
GV I

Incorrectly marked on Ordnance Survey map as Saint Ann's Chapel.
Courthouse, now storehouse. c1300. Rubble, pantile roof with stone slates
at eaves. First-floor hall with undercroft. 2 storeys, 5 internal bays.
Quoins. Main entrance to first floor on east side, with external stone
steps leading up to board door in recess. Board door to undercroft. Raised
verges with moulded coping and weathered finials. West elevation: buttress
at left end; board sliding door to undercroft towards left; first-floor
board door with quoined jambs to right. South gable end: first-floor window
of 2 trefoiled lights divided by a shaft with Early English capital, tracery
in head with a cusped quatrefoil, label. Above the window, a square opening
blocked with brick, perhaps a dovecote. North gable end: 2 single-light
windows to undercroft; on first floor, but at lower level than window at
south end, single trefoiled light. Interior, in undercroft: segmental rear
arch to eastern door; deeply-splayed reveals to north windows. Upper
chamber: in eastern wall, fireplace with moulded segmental arch; end windows
splayed, with chamfered segmental rear arches. Collared principal rafter
roof trusses with trenched purlins, wall plate and common rafters, of C17
type, partially renewed. P F Ryder, Medieval Buildings of Yorkshire (1982),
p 142, VCH i, 301.

Listing NGR: SE1963099232

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17538288

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]