Description

SD 71 NW TURTON (off) CHAPELTOWN ROAD

7/104 The Old Barn
(formerly listed as Barn
at Turton Tower Farm)
28.10.1963
GV II

Large barn, dated 1697, altered as dwelling since first listed.
Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, stone slate roof now with small
chimney at left end, stone gable copings and kneelers with ball finials.
Now 2 storeys; offset to right of centre is gabled porch with ball
finials to the kneelers and at the apex, the round-headed entrance arch
now glazed, with a door. The wall to the left of the porch incorporates
a shaped door lintel lettered "I" "C"; beyond are 3 round-headed
"1697"
lancets at ground floor and 4 narrow windows at 1st floor, and various
inserted windows. To the right of the porch are 2 large inserted windows
on each floor. Left gable wall has continuous dripstone stepped over
shaped lintels at each end and over a blocked 2-light mullioned window
in the centre, at 1st floor in the centre a blocked doorway with a shaped
lintel and a hoodmould, 2 narrow windows each side; and in the gable a
blocked owl hole. Rear wall has been radically altered by insertion of
very large windows.

Listing NGR: SD7314215148

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551444

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)