TITHE BARN

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:: TITHE BARN, GL54 5PQ

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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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

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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

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Legacy System number:: 134915
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Mercer, Eric, English Vernacular Houses, (1975)
Neidpath, Lord , Stanway House, (1984)
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.