Description

AVEBURY -
SU 17 SW
11/43 Great Barn
22.8.66

GV I

Glebe barn attached to Manor Farm, now Wiltshire Folk Life study
centre. Late C17. Timber framed and weatherboarded on stone
sills. Thatched roof. Nine bays, with aisles returned at ends.
Cartways in bays 2 and 8, bay 2 extended to north later by 1 bay
forming porch. C20 glazed openings in weatherboarding on both
sides. Roof has gablets and pent roofs over aisles, but attached
to stone outbuildings on east end.
Interior has tie beam trusses with struts to aisle posts supported
on limestone pads, the posts deeply haunched. Raking struts to
principal rafters and straight windbraces to single purlins. At
ends, purlins supported by single re-used cruck blades. Purlin
struts at half bays. Scarfs are square butt squinted joints. The
barn contains much re-used timber but was re-numbered from the east
end on erection. Restored 1978 for display of farm and country
life.

Listing NGR: SU0999270007

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17529919

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)