Description

TL 41 SW HUNSDON DRURY LANE
(east end)

2/1 The Big Black Barn
at Hunsdon Lodge
14.4.83 Farm 500 metres
along track

GV II*

Lodgings range, now a barn. C16, altered to a barn in C18.
Timberframed and weatherboarded with a steep old red tile gabled
roof. Double doors on E side. A tall unaisled barn facing E.
ormerly an important 2 storeys domestic building approximately
20 x 8 metres. Former 8-bay structure altered by creating 2
middle wider bays from 4, leaving 1 original bay at S end and 3
at N end. Queen post trusses with 2 butt purlins in line with
each slope. Deep paired arched wind braces to lower purlin.
Squared, chamfered, jowled posts of great size, with deep arched
braces to tie beams. Remains of serpentine tension bracing in
walls and rebated studs for upper windows. Tie beams have
mortices for an original ceiling/attic floor. ..all posts have
paired vertical mortices and cut back ledge for upper floor
beams, and mortice for a brace under. The building was
presumably part of Hunsdon Lodge, a royal hunting lodge, recorded
in the Tudor Period (HLHS (1979) 34). Remains of an early 2
storeys timberframed house of exceptional size and quality. Part
of the picturesque group of tarred farm buildings at Hunsdon
Lodge Farm.

Listing NGR: TL4243614364

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553658

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)