Description

STEEPLE ASHTON HIGH STREET
ST 9056
(west side)
13/258 No 46 (Black Barn Cottage)
(formerly listed as 46 Black Barn
11.9.68 Farmhouse)
GV II*

Detached house. C15, altered C16, refronted early C19. Square-
panelled timber-framing on stone plinth with short buttresses,
brick nogging, front rendered, stone slate roof, brick stacks to
rear. Five-bay main range with 2-bay open hall at south end, C16
parlour wing to west. Two-storey, 3-window. Six-panelled door
with flat stone hood on brackets to right of centre, 12-pane sash
to right, two sashes to left. First floor has three 9-pane sashes.
Right return is timber-framed with blocked doorway, single-light
casement to first floor. Left return has C20 ground and attic
floor casements; rendered up to top of first floor. Rear of main
range has large stone and brick added stack to hall. Rear wing has
dressed stone ground floor, timber-framed first floor; C20
conservatory to south side, 2-light or single-light casements.
Interior: Hall range has C16 inserted ceiling with moulded cross
beams, inserted lateral stack with timber lintel on stone jambs,
moulded arch-braced collar truss roof exposed to first floor;
chamfered windbraces formerly to two tiers of purlins, lower tier
removed, smoke-blackening apparently also removed; the house was
restored by Lady Long, C20. Parlour wing has restored Tudor-arched
stone fireplace to ground floor, fine moulded cross-beam ceiling
with exposed joists, Tudor-arched stone doorway between hall and
parlour, probably a former external door. First floor bedroom with
similar moulded cross beams and Tudor-arched stone fireplace, attic
over with plain collar and tie-beam roof trusses and windbracing to
purlins. Good example of a small house with high quality C16
alterations, in Steeple Ashton.

Listing NGR: ST9067656787

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17544212

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair