Description

SX 86 NW DENBURY AND TORBRYAN

304/4/10002 Barn immediately North
East of Norden Farmhouse

GV II

Bank barn. Circa 1830s or 1840s. Local grey limestone rubble. Grouted scantle slate roof with gabled ends, one end with stone coping.
PLAN: Rectangular on plan; built into bank at rear, with shippons and root store on ground floor and barn above entered at rear where the ground level is higher.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. South front has shippon doorways with plank doors and wider central doorway with cambered arch [partly blocked] on ground floor, and central door above with canopy; ventilation slits on ground and first floors. At rear [N] large central doorway to barn with plank double doors; C20 open-sided shelter against rear wall.
INTERIOR: Shipons on ground floor have large roughly-hewn and closely-spaced joists; root store converted into dairy. Barn above has 8-bay roof, collar trusses, the collars halved, lapped and pegged to the principals, two tiers of purlins set on the backs of the principals; common-rafters intact with ridgeboard; underside of slates torched.

Listing NGR: SX8148168987

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660367

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