Barn At Chale Abbey

Description

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

CHALE

SZ47NE UPPER HOUSE LANE 1353-0/5/86 Barn at Chale Abbey 21/07/51

GV II*

Barn. Early C16 restored in C19. Built of stone rubble with slate roof. East front has large projecting hipped waggon entrance and 3 stone buttresses, 3 stone buttresses to west front. North end gable has tumbling in and kneelers and 2 stone mullioned windows near apex divided by central buttress with splayed buttresses to side. Row of triangular ventilation slits and deep plinth. 7 bay barn with arch braced roof with angled queen struts. Only one truss is original, the rest have been replaced in softwood and the roof is a C19 diagonally boarded one with 7 layers of purlins and ridgepiece. One of the oldest barns on the Isle of Wight.

Listing NGR: SZ4859977821

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1751 IOE Records taken by Robert Rudd; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Rev Robert Rudd. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project