BARN ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH OF CHITTINGHURST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1027956
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1989
List Entry Name:: BARN ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH OF CHITTINGHURST
Statutory Address:: BARN ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH OF CHITTINGHURST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1027956
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1989
List Entry Name:: BARN ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH OF CHITTINGHURST
Statutory Address 1:: BARN ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH OF CHITTINGHURST

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BARN ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH OF CHITTINGHURST

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: East Sussex
District:: Wealden (District Authority)
Parish:: Wadhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 61542 29088

Details

WADHURST TIDEBROOK TQ 62 NW 22/549 Barn about 50 m north of Chittinghurst GV II* Barn, probably c.1500. C20 vertical boarding over timber frame. N end has wattle and daub infill above midrail over horizontal boarding with raking poles supporting oversailing eaves plate. Hipped roof of corrugated iron. 4 bays with off centre threshing floor. W elevation has C20 plank door at W end and full height doorway to threshing bay, S of centre. Interior: exposed timber frame with wall bracing, midrails and vertical studding. Jointed and arch-braced wall posts to chamfered tie-beam of four-bay crown-post roof which has raking side struts to clasped purlins. Three bays to N of threshing floor are raised, and truss to northern most bay has additional wall posts with morticing for floor-beam now removed, this, together with window, of which 4 wood-mullioned lights remain, on east side suggest this bay was possibly floored originally and may have been used as a dwelling.

Listing NGR: TQ6154229088

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Legacy System number:: 297110
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.