BRICK BARN AND SHELTER SHED AT FINCHES FARM (130 METRES TO SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF FARMHOUSE)
BRICK BARN AND SHELTER SHED AT FINCHES FARM (130 METRES TO SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF FARMHOUSE), TOWN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101414
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- BRICK BARN AND SHELTER SHED AT FINCHES FARM (130 METRES TO SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF FARMHOUSE)
- Statutory Address:
- BRICK BARN AND SHELTER SHED AT FINCHES FARM (130 METRES TO SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF FARMHOUSE), TOWN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101414
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- BRICK BARN AND SHELTER SHED AT FINCHES FARM (130 METRES TO SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF FARMHOUSE)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRICK BARN AND SHELTER SHED AT FINCHES FARM (130 METRES TO SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF FARMHOUSE), TOWN LANE
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:
- BRICK BARN AND SHELTER SHED AT FINCHES FARM (130 METRES TO SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF FARMHOUSE), TOWN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Benington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3059923213
Details
TL 32 SW
4/19
BENINGTON
TOWN SCHEME
(south side)
Brick Barn and Shelter Shed at Finches Farm (130m to SSE of farmhouse)
GV
II
Barn and shelter shed attached. Early/mid C17 barn, late C18
shed. Barn of red brick in irregular bond with flint panels in W
gable and weatherboarded top to each gable. Steep old red tile
roof to 2 porches and adjoining main roof but roof now largely of
corrugated sheets. A tall unaisled 8-bay barn facing S with 2
gabled porches, in 3rd and 6th bays. High external plinth. Added
buttresses to W corners of barn. Vent-slot in each bay with oak
lintol. Unusual composite construction with shallow bay posts
rising against wall from brick bases with curved braces to
cambered tie-beams (all but 3 posts cut off below braces). Butt-
purlin roof with 2 purlins to each slope, staggered in line.
Collar beam trusses with inclined queen-struts above and below
collar. Numbered joints. Face-halved bladed scarf joints in
rear wallplate under tie-beam ends. 5-bay shelter shed running S
from SE corner of barn, open to yard on W, and with a flint rear
wall with brick piers, which is a feature along Whempstead Road
to E. Red brick wall at S end is a fragment of a C17 brick barn
now destroyed by fire. Steep pitched roof now of corrugated
iron. Clasped purlin roof with inclined queen-post and cambered
tie-beams. Edge halved scarf joint in front arcade plate carried
on square posts.
Listing NGR: TL3059923213
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159625
- 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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