Description

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SP 91 SE
5/26

ALDBURY
STOCKS ROAD (West side)
Court of farm buildings (east barn) with brick stable and coach house attached, at Stocks Farm

30.11.66

GV
II
Farm buildings, stable and coach house. North range C16, west range late C16, south range early C17 with late C17 gateway in east part, late C17 east barn with C18 coach house adjoining north west corner and early C18 stable adjoining north side of north range.

Timber frames on low red brick sills, generally dark weatherboarded but east barn has red brick infill to exposed square framing. Red brick coach house and stable. Steep old red tile roofs, south range hipped at west, slate roofs to coach house. To north of farmhouse built in 1908, a rectangular court of farm buildings with gateway in south range and opening at north emerging between brick stable and coach house built to serve the former Stocks House moved to a new site in 1773. North range is a building of three wide bays with swept jowls to bay posts and unjowled posts at mid-bay, mid-height rail tenoned in-line, straight braces to heavy tie-beams, heavy straight inclined queen-posts clasping a single purlin in each slope with straight wind braces. Some brick infill in east bay of north wall. Wide opening on south in middle bay. The west range of six bays has a projecting gabled west porch in the fourth bay from north, heavy jowled posts, long convex curved braces to tie-beams, inclined queen-posts clasping a single purlin in each slope, and squint butted scarf joints in wall plates. Studs replaced by brickwork in part of east wall. The higher south range is composed of six bays double barn and a later gateway. Step-jowled posts with unjowled mid-bay posts and staggered mid-height rail. Straight braces to tie-beams and collar trusses with inclined struts at the lower angles.Upper clasped-purlin, lower butt-jointed purlin staggered in height in alternate bays. Structural partition between barns and gabled projecting central south porch survives in west half. Gateway roofed in-line with double-barn has a single bay with double doors on south, and a narrow east bay with a smaller pedestrian door. The roof construction is as that of the east barn adjoining. Parallel with the road this is of six bays with a wide doorway on the east in the third bay from the south. Jowled posts with long curved braces to cambered tie-beams. Two clasped-purlins to each slope, the upper on a high collar with two long wide-spaced queen-struts below rising from the tie-beam. Spur-collars spring from these tall struts, with a small strut below, and clasp the lower purlin. The tall central gap in the truss is designed to facilitate filling the barn as high as possible. The south gable truss has a high collar but inclined queen-posts clasping the lower purlin. Twin-gabled two storeys brick stable facing east with two windows to each floor and central wide door with fanlight and hooded clock case over. Small flush casement windows with segmental arches. Header-bond with some blue headers.

Stalls for three horses each side and rear door to extension at higher level. Ornate C18 partitions with knobs to posts. Heavy floor over on three cross-beams. Coach house of red brick with random blue headers faces east and has a taller north pavilion. Twin elliptical arched openings with curved heads to double doors and panelled parapet with stone coping. Round arched recess to east end of rectangular taller pavilion with toothed eaves course, plinth, brick panels to upper part and hipped roof. Large arched recess on north face, blank with double-sided mounting block. Entrance door in plainer west wall with window over. Window inserted at two levels on east side of pavilion.

A group of outstanding interest and illustrating structural changes over three centuries.

Listing NGR: SP9648113242

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26626241

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey