Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD17SE BANK LANE
708-1/3/27 (North side)
Barn immediately to rear of Sowerby
Hall Farmhouse

GV II*

Barn now cow house. Late C16-early C17 with later additions.
Red sandstone rubble, graduated slate roof. Tall single
storey, 7 bays; additions on east side flank a central waggon
entrance. West side has stone buttress on right of another
addition which encloses a blocked archway opposing the waggon
entrance. Blocked slit vents. Steeply-pitched roof. INTERIOR:
exceptionally complete raised-cruck roof structure with 6
pairs having tie beams set on knee braces and collars on arch
braces. Double purlins with curved windbraces, oak rafters and
diagonally-set ridge. OS maps show the barn served Sowerby
Hall formerly situated to the north-west but demolished
between 1873 and 1895 at which time the new farmhouse (qv) was
built adjacent to the barn.

Listing NGR: SD1986172461

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17541427

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)