Description

SP 04 NE NORTH & MIDDLE LITTLETON MIDDLE LITTLETON
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30.7.59 The Tithe Barn
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Tithe Barn early C14 built for Abbey of Evesham. Blue lias stone with Cotswold stone
dressings and stone tile roof. 136 ft long, 30 ft wide and 40 ft high. Originally
2 large projecting gabled cart entrances on South side and to smaller gabled rear
entrances. Only the Western pair, front and rear survive. Coped gables with ornate
clover-leaf finials, 2 original, 2 copies. Central buttresses to end gables,
buttresses between bays and long ventilating loops. Eleven bays, 8 large raised base
crucks carrying upper collar-and-tie-beam trusses. At each end an aisled bay with
collar-and-tie-beam truss carried on aisle post. Triple purlin roof. Wind bracing
throughout. Attached at each end C19 additions of minor interest; at West end L-plan
stable range with small barn attached, half-hipped plain tile roof; at East end a low
slate roofed range coming forward with 2-storey barn attached.

Horn & Charles: Journal of Soc of Arch Historians 25 1966 4 221-39.

Listing NGR: SP0798747069

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Middle Littleton Tithe Barn at Wikipedia
• Middle Littleton Tithe Barn official website
• Wikidata Q17530499

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)