Old Tithe Barn, Waddon

OLD TITHE BARN, WADDON, 520, PURLEY WAY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1079247
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1990
List Entry Name:
Old Tithe Barn, Waddon
Statutory Address:
OLD TITHE BARN, WADDON, 520, PURLEY WAY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1079247
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1990
List Entry Name:
Old Tithe Barn, Waddon
Statutory Address 1:
OLD TITHE BARN, WADDON, 520, PURLEY WAY

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD TITHE BARN, WADDON, 520, PURLEY WAY

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Croydon (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 31069 64404

Details

The following building shall be added:

TQ 36 SW PURLEY WAY 5/52 NO 520 OLD TITHE BARN, WADDON II

Former barn, now offices. C18, shown on the map of Waddon Court of 1799. Unusual structure of 2 parallel ranges with M shaped roof, timber framed, clad in light brickwork with very steeply pitched tiled roof with wooden louvres at the end of each range. West side has hipped midstray with double doors and 3 C20 windows and some C18 brickwork in English band.North side has C19 and C20 brickwork in Flemish bond, East side has C20 brickwork in Flemish bond and the south side has 2 diagonal brick buttresses and mainly C19 and C20 brickwork. Aisled barn of 7 bays with no aisle posts in the centre. Upright post are unjowled with diagonal braces. Aisle parts are on brick padstones. Butt purlin roof, with 2 tiers to tiles and struts for the posts to the lower purline. This barn may have been built to replace the old Orrydan tithe barn when the latter was turned into 24 cottages. In the late C18 it formed part of Waddon Court and later part of Coldharbour farm.

Listing NGR: TQ3106964404

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
201298
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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