Description

SU 89 NW WEST WYCOMBE RURAL PLOMER GREEN LANE
(West Side, off)
1/220
Flint Barn at Downley
Farm on the East Side
of farmyard

II GV

Barn. Probably late C18, with later addition, for the Dashwood Estate. Flint with
brick bands, pilaster strips, quoins and quoined surrounds. Addition of
weatherboard on brick plinth. Plain tile roof, half-hipped at north end. 5 bays
with 2-way addition at south end. Central opposed cart-entries with board doors,
that on east side in gabled, weatherboard, midstray; that on west (yard) side having
stable door to left and wide blocked entrance on right. Two tiers of slit vents.
West (yard) elevation of addition has stable door flanked by small-pane windows with
2 boarded-up openings above. Interior: from tile beams curved principal rafters
rise to collars; 2 tiers of clasped through purlins; intermediate collars; old
rafters; no ridge-piece; roof originally ½-hipped also at south end where the gable
was of weatherboard with hatch below. Important building in the farmyard group, of
which the farmhouse (qv West Wycombe Rural CP) is dated 1819.

Listing NGR: SU8472195281

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26418608

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)