Description

TQ 29 NW POTTERS BAR WROThAM PARK, BARNET
Central range at
8/271 Wrotham Park Home farm,
including barn, engine
house, chimney, shelter
shed and building facing
on to rear yard

II GV

Range of farm buildings. 1850s, of different builds, with datestones of 1854 and
1856; for Lord Enfield. Red brick in Flemish bond; Welsh slate roofs. 5-bay barn
with loft has a lower building attached at each end, that to west being the engine
house; the 4-bay engine house has a chimney on south side and attached link-building
projecting southwards to join 7-bay shelter shed; on west side of link-building is
attached 7-bay building, formerly with carpenters' shop, which faces into rear yard.
Chamfered plinths and eaves; brick kneelers to raised verges with brick coping.
Openings have chamfered surrounds, the original windows small-paned with wooded
mullions. Board doors and shutters. Barn: bays defined by pilasters linked by
cogged, stepped, eaves band; opposed central cart entries with sliding doors (now of
corrugated iron); on south side outer bays have a shuttered opening to each floor,
those to loft 2-centred-arched; opening to each gable below dripmould, that at west
gable louvred, that at east gable with 2-light window. Engine house has openings on
north side: left bay originally open with later brick and weatherboard infill and
door; to right a door flanked by windows, the right window blind. Chimney:
approximately 10 m high; square base broached to circular shaft with stepped
chamfered base, and stepped cogged band below rendered cornice. Shelter shed, open
on east side has arch-braced timber posts on chamfered padstones Building facing
onto rear yard has projecting gabled end bays, that on left with 3-light window,
that on right with 2-centred-arched doorway and datestone; between them is central
door with 2-light windows to left and replacement windows to right, all openings
with gauged brick arches. Interiors: roof trusses have iron king posts, wooden
angle braces and tie-beams; trenched or butt purlins. Barn has overhead shafts and
cogs from former machinery worked by the beam engine which survives in the engine
house.

Listing NGR: TQ2469498643

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542178

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)