Description

WEST CAMEL

242/0/10002 PARSONAGE ROAD
11-JAN-02 WEST CAMEL
(East side)
Implement Sheds to West of West Camel
Farm

GV II

Implement shed. Circa late C19. Dressed stone piers and spine wall. Corrugated-iron clad roof with weatherboarded gable ends, concealing 'solid thatch' roof structure. Large 4-bay implement shed facing village street [W] and integral 2-bay open-fronted shed at rear [E], with already existing spine wall between. Closely-spaced pole joists/tie-beams supported on wall- and arcade-plates carries 'solid thatch' roof, which is made from coarse brushwood and straw and is thatched on top, but now clad in corrugated-iron sheets. The 2-bay shed to rear [E] has lost much of the 'solid thatch'.
This is a very rare example of a 'solid thatch' roof structure, a primitive form of construction that avoided the need for roof trusses. Other local examples are to be found at Hamlyns Farm, Long Load and at Hainbury Farm, Northover, Yeovilton.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669077

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)