Barn At Alton Priors Farm

Date:
27 Jul 2000
Location:
Barn At Alton Priors Farm, Alton, Kennet, Wiltshire, SN8 4JX
Reference:
IOE01/00118/17
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

ALTON ALTON PRIORS SU 16 SW 5/14 Barn at Alto Priors Farm

GV II

Barn and smithy, now workshop. Early C19. Timber framed and weatherboarding, with slate roof. Seven bays, with aisles, the centre threshing bay wider. Aisle posts on dwarf brick walls, some repaired. Curved braces to arcade plates and to heavy tie beams.

Small struts to principal rafters, and collars. Outer posts to the narrow aisle jowled. In penultimate western bay a freestanding brick forge with two hearths, the aisle bays fitted with work benches. Bellows, quenching tanks, anvil and blacksmiths' tools all present, also two hand operated vertical drills. Eastern bays divided off as engineering workshop.

Listing NGR: SU1103562303

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0955 IOE Records taken by B J W Heath; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr B.J.W. Heath. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Heath, B.J.W.

Rights Holder: Heath, B.J.W.

Keywords

Slate, Timber, Weatherboard, Brick, Georgian Aisled Barn, Victorian Monument (By Form), Aisled Building, Agriculture And Subsistence, Barn, Farm Building, Agricultural Building, Blacksmiths Workshop, Industrial, Metal Workers Workshop, Craft Industry Site, Workshop, Industrial Building, Timber Framed Barn, Timber Framed Building