Description

SALEHURST

1917/0/10060 ROBERTSBRIDGE
30-SEP-05 Barn at Grove Farm including attached
cartshed

II
Threshing barn with attached cartshed. Barn is late C17, cartshed attached to the south west forming an L-wing is C18.
BARN: Timberframed, clad in weatherboarding on a plinth originally sandstone but repaired in the late C20 in brickwork with some reused sandstone. Pegtiled roof, hipped to the west and half-hipped to the east. It measures 40' 4" by 18' 10" and has full-height wagon doors to the north and half-height doors to the south. Internally the wall-frame has a midrail with diagonal tension braces. One upright post is jowled, others have a curved profile. Each side of the wagon entrance are long diagonal braces and horizontal boards either side of the threshing floor. A later floor has been inserted to the eastern bay. The roof structure has tiebeams, collar beams and original rafters. A few of the rafters are reused mediaeval rafters, halved for collars.
CARTSHED: Brick laid in Sussex bond with tiled roof. Three bays, open fronted to the east, supported on wooden piers. The roof structure has tie beams, collar beams, purlins and a ridgepiece to the rafters.
HISTORY: Part of a farm called "The Grove" south east of Robertsbridge which was an example of the trend in the C17 and C18 away from small-holdings and towards farms of an economic size. The original farmhouse which is called "The Grove" is no longer a farmhouse but is listed grade II.

A late C17 four bay timberframed threshing barn and attached C18 brick cartshed.

[David and Barbara Martin "An Architectural History of Robertsbridge"1974 (Part of "Hastings Area Archaeological Papers No 5".]

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670789

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2