Description

LISKEARD

SX26NE Barn approximately 25 metres north
979-1/2/8 of Tremabe Farmhouse (not included)

II

Threshing barn with waggon shed and stables with remains of
attached water-powered engine house. Mid C19. Mixed rubble
walls with slatestone, granite and elvan and some granite
dressings; rag slate roof, cement-grouted at the front with
red clay ridge tiles including one reused C17 hand-made
crested tile.
Rectangular plan, slightly deeper to rear on the left plus
remains of later engine house behind the left-hand side. Barn
has threshing floor left of centre, and is built into the bank
on the left. 2 storeys; 2-window range front. Threshing
doorway left of middle; slit ventilator and pigeon holes on
the left and 2 windows on the right with ventilated heads. The
threshing doorway and the one opposite (rear wall) and a
similar doorway at the left-hand end wall, have slate hoods on
wooden corbels and original planked doors with the right-hand
doors divided to give ventilation control. Ground floor has
wide central doorway with shouldered head and smaller door at
left and far right, all chamfered. Engine house is roofless
and the walls are partly fallen; very wide doorway on the
left.
INTERIOR not inspected but retains its original floors and
roof structure. A finely-crafted example.

Listing NGR: SX2573366811

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570856

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)