Description

CRANBROOK BIDDENDEN ROAD
TQ 83 NW (NORTH SIDE)
Sissinghurst

4/30 Barn 60 yards north
20.6.67 of the west range of
Sissinghurst Castle
GV I

Barn. Early C16 red brick with plain tiled roofs. Tumbled parapets to gables.
Buttresses to wall, 3 each side of centre. Breathers on 3 levels to left of
centre, those to right hidden by lean-to catslide extension. Central pointed-
arched wagon entrance, mirroring that to north, with pentice hood over and
boarded doors. Mid-stray to north. Interior: 5-bays with Queen-post side-
purlin roof and some wind-bracing. Winding hoist attached to beam in roof.
This barn is shown in an engraving of 1760 by James Peak with brick end stacks.
It is attached to a nineteenth century range of outbuildings to left, (this
part not listed).

Listing NGR: TQ8077438400

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530354

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey