Description

TL 12 NE PRESTON CHARLTON

2/76 Granary and 2 adjoining
barns on roadside at
Wellhead Farm

GV II

Granary and 2 adjoining barns. E barn mid C17, granary at W early C18,
middle barn C18 linking the earlier buildings. Timber frames on red
brick sills, red brick ground floor to granary, dark weatherboarded,
with steep old red tile roofs to road at rear but some corrugated
sheeting on yard side of the barn roofs. Some red brick infill to yard
side of barns. A 2-storeys square building at entrance to yard has the
granary reached by ladder on S over a brick stable with stable door on
W. Tall 4-bays E barn has entrance in 2nd bay from N to yard. Heavy
jowled posts with long straight braces to wallplates and tie-beams.
Clasped purlin roof with one purlin to each slope and heavy inclined
queen-posts wider at their upper ends where they join the principal and
hold the purlin in a notch. Face-halved bladed scarf joints over
postheads. Lower middle barn has gabled projecting S porch to yard and
very steep roof. Unjowled posts and clasped-purlin roof on trusses with
collars.

Listing NGR: TL1754027626

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26396529

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings