Barn at Taynton House
BARN AT TAYNTON HOUSE, B4216
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1078575
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Taynton House
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AT TAYNTON HOUSE, B4216
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1078575
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Taynton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AT TAYNTON HOUSE, B4216
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 AT TAYNTON HOUSE, B4216
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Taynton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 72232 22184
Details
SO 72 SW TAYNTON B4216 (west side)
7/240 Barn at Taynton House (formerly listed as part of 'Group 2.10.54 of three barns to the north of Taynton House')
GV II*
Barn; 1695 (datestone); irregular mixed English Garden Wall and Flemish bond brickwork; stone slate roof. Six-bay barn, 2 porches: later single bay extension on end. Main facade: bullnosed top to plinth, clasping corner pilaster buttress at ends, plain brick string course half-way up side walls. Left end 3 slit air vents below, 2 above, stone ball gable finial: to right porch with pilaster buttresses each side at front, double boarded doors, elliptical brick arch over, 2 slit air vents in gable over, stone plaque between, oval owl-hole above: stone ball gable finial. Right return single slit air vent each level, string course raised at back over elliptical-headed doorway, rebate for door. In centre 6 slit air vents below, 5 above. Random rubble stone walls project forward from porches either side of centre recess for lean- to, added probably C19 for yard cattle, removed late C20. To right second porch, as first, but doors rise to transom, with vertical boarding above to arch: left door in 2 sections. Beyond to right repeats left end. Lean-to against right gable, wide doorway cut in front: clasping corner buttress: stone copings to gables to extension. Left return 4 tiers of slit air vents, diminishing from 5 to 2, oval owl hole above. Interior, walls 450mm thick, air vents splayed internally with cambered brick heads. Stone-paved threshing floors: low inserted brick wall to right of right floor, timber top: boarded platform beyond. Extreme left bay brick paved, up about 100mm from threshing floor, with stone curb. Low, double doors to left threshing floor at rear with elliptical brick arch, 2 slit air vents above. Originally same on right, but brickwork over later replaced with boarding on timber studs. Tie-beam trusses with angle-struts, 2 pairs purlins, no ridge piece, wind braces to lower purlins from wall plate. Latin inscriptions on plaques. An important and little altered late C17 brick barn, forms group with 2 other brick farmbuildings and house; an unusual and important survival (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SO7223222184
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 125776
- 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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