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Latitude: 51.2772 / 51°16'37"N
Longitude: 1.1677 / 1°10'3"E
OS Eastings: 621028
OS Northings: 157884
OS Grid: TR210578
Mapcode National: GBR VZJ.VD3
Mapcode Global: VHLGP.6557
Plus Code: 9F3375G9+V3
Entry Name: Barn at Littlebourne Court
Listing Date: 30 January 1967
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1085595
English Heritage Legacy ID: 171282
ID on this website: 101085595
Location: Littlebourne, Canterbury, Kent, CT3
County: Kent
District: Canterbury
Civil Parish: Littlebourne
Built-Up Area: Littlebourne
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: Barn Thatched barn
In the entry for:-
TR 2157 35/448 LITTLEBOURNE CHURCH ROAD
(north east side)
Barn at Littlebourne
30. 1.67 Court
II*
The entry shall be amended to read:
TR 2157 LITTLEBOURNE CHURCH ROAD
(north east side)
35/448A Barn at Littlebourne
Court
I
Barn. Probably mid C14 (dated c.1400 by carbon dating) and possibly reusing
elements from an earlier C12 barn on the site. Large aisled timberframed barn
clad in vertical weatherboarding on brick plinth with hipped thatched roof.
2 hipped waggon entrances added in 1961. 8½ bay barn 172 feet long. Passing
braces. Crown posts with foot braces on either side and head braces supporting
collar braces. Rafters but no ridgepiece with substantial re-rafting. Jowled
posts supported on wooden padstones. Remarkable survival of midrail to vertical
weatherboarding. The barn is remarkably complete although 1 foot brace has
been replaced and some knee supports have been inserted between the upright
posts and arched braces. Normal assembly to main plate and reverse assembly
to aisle plate with variety of joints. The barn belonged to St Augustine's
Abbey, Canterbury and part of it may have been us-ed for storing tithes. This
is the earliest barn in Canterbury District and together with Frindsbury barn
Medway District and Brook barn Ashford District one of the earliest known barns
in Kent.
(See S E Rigold 'Some Major Kentish Timber Barns' Arch Cant Vol LXXXI
Jane Wade Ed 'Traditional Kent Buildings' No 4 pp 26-35).
Listing NGR: TR2102857884
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