Description

NU 21 NW
5/199

RENNINGTON
BROXFIELD
Barn and engine house on north side of main farmbuilding group

GV
II

Barn and engine house, part of planned farm buildings complex. Mid-C19.
Snecked stone with tooled-and-margined dressings; stack engineering brick on
ashlar base; Welsh slate roof.

North elevation: Gable end of 2-storey barn shows renewed windows in old
openings with chamfered alternating-block surrounds. Set back to left is
engine house with boarded door under timber lintel under 16-pane Yorkshire
sash; boarded double doors on far left. At rear of engine house is stack with
square base and tapering circular shaft. 3-bay right return of barn shows
stable door and part-slatted windows, all in alternating-block surrounds.
Coped gables, that to right carrying stepped end stack with chamfered cap.

Interior: Engine house contains Robey Patent Super Oil Engine (patent 1925.
Lincoln). Barn retains threshing machinery.

Attached altered fambuildings to south, east and west are not of special
interest.

Listing NGR: NU2012716712

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26293692

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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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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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)