Barn Approximately 20 Metres North East of the Manor Preparatory School
BARN APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE MANOR PREPARATORY SCHOOL, FARINGDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048303
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Barn Approximately 20 Metres North East of the Manor Preparatory School
- Statutory Address:
- BARN APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE MANOR PREPARATORY SCHOOL, FARINGDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048303
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn Approximately 20 Metres North East of the Manor Preparatory School
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE MANOR PREPARATORY SCHOOL, FARINGDON ROAD
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:
- BARN APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE MANOR PREPARATORY SCHOOL, FARINGDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Helen Without
- National Grid Reference:
- SU4846698045
Details
ST.HELEN WITHOUT FARINGDON ROAD
SU49NE (East side)
Shippon
8/136 Barn approx. 20m. NE of The
09/02/66 Manor Preparatory School
(Formerly listed as Manor
House, including adjoining
outbuildings)
GV II*
Barn, now gymnasium. C15, for Abingdon Abbey. Coursed limestone rubble with
puplog holes and dressed quoins; old tile roof with stone coping and carved
finials. 5-bay plan with threshing floor in second bay from left. Entries
blocked by C20 door and glazing: timber lintel over smaller blocked entry in
second bay from right. Interior: 5-bay roof with original windbraces to rear
right, and C20 lateral (iron stanchion) and transverse (bolted plates)
strengthening. Raised crucks with arch-braced lower collars, and upper collars
halved into blades; ridge purlin laid on solid yoke; trenched side purlins with
tabled scarf joints. Abingdon Abbey leased the site out to lay tenants in C15.
(J. Fletcher, "Crucks in the West Berkshire and Oxfordshire Region", 0xonensia,
Vol.33 (1968), pp.80-81; V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.IV, p.416).
Listing NGR: SU4846698045
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249813
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 416
Oxoniensia in Oxoniensia, Vol. 33, (1968), 80-1
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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