Barn, Friar's Court

BARN, FRIAR'S COURT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1078519
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Barn, Friar's Court
Statutory Address:
BARN, FRIAR'S COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1078519
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Barn, Friar's Court
Statutory Address 1:
BARN, FRIAR'S COURT

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
BARN, FRIAR'S COURT

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:
Kempley
National Grid Reference:
SO 66927 31819

Details

KEMPLEY - SO 63 SE 4/127 Barn, Friar's Court

II

Barn. Probably C15 and C17, loft mid C19. Timber-framed on stone plinth, corrugated-iron roof. Six bay barn, slight bend in centre, in plan, loft in one end. To yard, double boarded doors to threshing floors to one panel below eaves, one bay in from each end. Plinth steps up to right in centre: boarded-over pitching hole on right. Weatherboarding: some inset boards between studs on left: some butt-jointed boarding on right. To field, plinth same, doors to eaves, one each set in 2 halves: boarded-over pitching hole to loft. Generally weatherboarding, butt-jointed boarding to one central bay. Interior: threshing floors stone paved. That on right flanked by cruck trusses, originally with collar and spurs, collars now missing. Inserted low brick plinth on left, timber sill above: loft inserted on right with shafting to drive feed preparation machinery. One pair purlins, square ridge. Centre truss hidden at time of inspection (1985) by hay. Left threshing floor low sill wall each side, timber top, angled braces rise to main posts, straight above to tie beam, central vertical post (one angled brace missing on right, one short above on left). Doors narrower than threshing floor, framing 3 panels high. Trusses tie beam, collar, angle struts: 2 pairs purlins, square ridge. Reported originally thatched.

Listing NGR: SO6692731819

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Legacy System number:
125945
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.

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