Tithe Barn
TITHE BARN, GL54 5PQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1091814
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Tithe Barn
- Statutory Address:
- TITHE BARN, GL54 5PQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1091814
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Tithe Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- TITHE BARN, GL54 5PQ
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:
- TITHE BARN, GL54 5PQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Tewkesbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanway
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 06037 32401
Details
SP 0632-0732,
13/129
STANWAY,
STANWAY VILLAGE,
Tithe Barn
4.7.60
G.V.
I
Former tithe barn, now village hall. Circa 1370 for Tewkesbury
Abbey; restored 1927 by Sir P. Stott for the Earl of Wemyss.
Coursed rubble masonry, stone slate roof. Seven-bay barn, central
porch on north side. North side, away from churchyard; gabled
porch, double, boarded doors, chamfered arris, cambered timber
lintel. On right wall extends into buttress, that on left has
been removed. Parapet gable, cross-gablet apex, grotesque finial.
Left return to porch arched , boarded doorway. Either side porch
2 square-set buttresses in barn wall, angled buttress corners,
parapet gables, apices as porch. Left return slit air vent in
gable.
Interior: concrete floor: stage left end, walls rendered to part
height. Base cruck trusses, arch braces to collar, square-set
purlin above, held by blocking pieces above collar. Principal
rafters over with collar, trapping purlin: curved wind braces to
upper and square-set purlin: lower purlin on base crucks.
Originally with 2 square holes per bay as air vents, near
buttresses, probably left by scaffolding. Ancient Monument Glos.
No 352.
(D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds, 1970; E. Mercer,
English Vernacular Houses, 1979; Lord Neidpath, Stanway House,
1984)
Listing NGR: SP0603332403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 134915
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Neidpath, Lord, Stanway House, (1984)
Mercer, Eric, English Vernacular Houses, (1975)
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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