Description

SK29SE BRADFIELD BRIERS HOUSE
LANE (east side),
Dungworth.

9/20 Barn at
Briers House
31/10/77 Farm, approximately
15 metres to
east of house.

II

Barn. Probably C17. Internal timber framing, irregularly coursed
rubble sandstone, stone slate roof. 4 bays, set into slope, cowhouse
beneath hayloft at downhill end, Cart entrance to right of centre,
no doors, Cowhouse door to left end with 2 other square openings.
Further openings in left return. Interior: 4 roughly formed and poorly
curved cruck pairs, the uphill pair built into the end wall, the downhill
end cruck with cowhouse bay beyond. Wall ties, collar beneath apex.
Single purlins, some windbraces. Cruck ends abut diagonal-set ridge.
Generally in poor condition with one cruck blade sawn off and supported
on a high stone column, a brick column below one tie beam, The roof
of the uphill bay collapsed completely.

Listing NGR: SK2790490454

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26425816

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings