Barn at Littlebourne Court
BARN AT LITTLEBOURNE COURT, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1085595
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Littlebourne Court
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AT LITTLEBOURNE COURT, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1085595
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Littlebourne Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AT LITTLEBOURNE COURT, CHURCH 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 AT LITTLEBOURNE COURT, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Canterbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Littlebourne
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 21028 57884
Details
In the entry for:-
TR 2157 35/448 LITTLEBOURNE CHURCH ROAD (north east side)
Barn at Littlebourne 30. 1.67 Court
II*
The entry shall be amended to read:
TR 2157 LITTLEBOURNE CHURCH ROAD (north east side)
35/448A Barn at Littlebourne Court I
Barn. Probably mid C14 (dated c.1400 by carbon dating) and possibly reusing elements from an earlier C12 barn on the site. Large aisled timberframed barn clad in vertical weatherboarding on brick plinth with hipped thatched roof. 2 hipped waggon entrances added in 1961. 8½ bay barn 172 feet long. Passing braces. Crown posts with foot braces on either side and head braces supporting collar braces. Rafters but no ridgepiece with substantial re-rafting. Jowled posts supported on wooden padstones. Remarkable survival of midrail to vertical weatherboarding. The barn is remarkably complete although 1 foot brace has been replaced and some knee supports have been inserted between the upright posts and arched braces. Normal assembly to main plate and reverse assembly to aisle plate with variety of joints. The barn belonged to St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury and part of it may have been us-ed for storing tithes. This is the earliest barn in Canterbury District and together with Frindsbury barn Medway District and Brook barn Ashford District one of the earliest known barns in Kent. (See S E Rigold 'Some Major Kentish Timber Barns' Arch Cant Vol LXXXI Jane Wade Ed 'Traditional Kent Buildings' No 4 pp 26-35).
Listing NGR: TR2102857884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171282
- 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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