Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/04/2016

SD 43 NW
5/38

LITTLE ECCLESTON WITH LARBRECK
MEAGLES LANE
The Old Barn

(Formerly listed as Barn on south side of lane c.150 metres east of Little Eccleston Hall)

GV
II
Small cruck-framed barn, date uncertain but probably C17. Walls partly hand made brick, partly modern brick replacement, but gable of east end cruck-framed with clamstaff and daub infill; corrugated iron roof and boarded eaves covering thatch. Rectangular 3-bay plan. Full-height wagon doorway to centre, plain doorway each side; slit breathers on all sides of 1st bay, diamond pattern breathers in west gable; rear of 3rd bay covered with corrugated iron sheet. Interior: 2 full cruck trusses, both with tie-beam and yoke, the 2nd also with curved dorsals held on pegs and a strut, but both also with vacant housings for tie-beams, spurs, and collars (suggesting possible domestic origin); trenched overlapped purlins with some straight wingbracing; original rafters carrying horizontal but irregular laths.

Listing NGR: SD4146539825

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26604153

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)