Description

SS 72 NE BISHOP'S NYMPTON

2/22 Threshing barn and adjoining horse
- engine house about 10 metres south
west of Mornacott Farmhouse
GV II

Threshing barn and adjoining horse engine house. Probably 1870s, and probably
contemporary with other farmbuildings at Mornacott. Stone rubble with a slate roof,
gabled at ends of barn, hipped at end of horse engine house.
Plan: Large rectangular bank barn with a threshing loft over a shippon. Contemporary
horse engine house in the centre on the north side with a canted north end.
Exterior: The south elevation, facing the yard, has 7 C19 doors and 4 windows on the
ground floor and 3 loft doors. The rear elevation is symmetrical with tall C19
paired doors to the threshing floor flanking the horse engine house and smaller C19
doors, one to the left and one to the right.
Interior: Threshing barn not inspected, the beam survives in the horse engine house.
Group value with Mornacott Farmhouse (q.v.) and other farmbuildings.

Listing NGR: SS7643827102

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456145

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Devon (Pevsner 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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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6