Down Barns
DOWN BARNS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023955
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Down Barns
- Statutory Address:
- DOWN BARNS
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- Date:
- 1999-08-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/01446/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023955
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Down Barns
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWN BARNS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DOWN BARNS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Idmiston
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 16965 37196
Details
IDMISTON - SU 13 NE 3/62 Down Barns GV II
Isolated house, farmyard with barn, stable granary and sheltershed, losed by walls. C19. Barn, on north side, of flint with brick quoins, four course lacings, and stepped gables. Sides of weather- boarding on timber framing. Slate roof. Six bays, with cartway through third bay. Tie beam and king post trusses with struts and single purlins. Roof extended to west over 2 bay cartshed with granary over. Cartshed has cast iron columns, with entry from outside yard. Granary has external stone staircase and floor independently supported within carthsed. On east side, a 4 unequal bay stable with tallet over, of similar construction, double doors to yard and three windows, and pitching door in gable to rear. Adjoining to south, an 8-bay sheltershed with cob rear wall and corrugated iron roof. Yard enclosed by flint wall with integral brick piers and tiled copings on south side, returning on west as a cob wall also with tiled copings. All forms a traditional farm group of early-mid C19 date. To south of sheltershed, former farmhouse, now ruinous, three bays with extension to south of 1 bay, and a 2-bay 2-storey block added later C19 to east side. Poor quality stone used for internal faces of walls. Adjacent to house, a steel windpump without fan or tail. House and windpump are outside yard and not included in group of special interest.
Listing NGR: SU1696537196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319955
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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