WHEAT BARN

WHEAT BARN, SANDON BURY, SANDON, SG9 0QY

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1102609
Date first listed:: 27-May-1968
List Entry Name:: WHEAT BARN
Statutory Address:: WHEAT BARN, SANDON BURY, SANDON, SG9 0QY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1102609
Date first listed:: 27-May-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: WHEAT BARN
Statutory Address 1:: WHEAT BARN, SANDON BURY, SANDON, SG9 0QY

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:: WHEAT BARN, SANDON BURY, SANDON, SG9 0QY

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Sandon
National Grid Reference:: TL 32289 34462

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/09/2017

TL 33 SW 7/95

SANDON Sandon Bury Wheat Barn

(Formerly listed as Barn about 35 metres southeast of Sandon Bury, Sandon, previously listed as Barn at Sandonbury)

27.5.68

GV II* Aisled barn. C14 or earlier. Altered late C17 and C19. Timber frame, rendered brick base. Weatherboarded and red brick clad. Slate roof.

Six bays with a shorter bay to end nearest road. End wall facing road is C17 brick with plinth, plat bands, two horizontal and an upper vertical oval openings. Brick coped parapet to broad gable with kneelers. Inserted windows in long sides with double doors in second bay facing yard.

Interior: large scantling to frame with slightly curved braces from unjowled arcade posts to tie beams and arcade plates. Splayed and tabled scarf joints in arcade plates. Passing braces with later reinforcing braces inserted. Above tie beams renewed with struts to principals. Originally had double aisle ties clasping wall plates, corner ties at hipped ends. One stone and brick plinth across aisle to arcade post. Studs, braces, mid rail in walling. C20 additions to right and to rear not of special interest.

(C.A. Hewett, AMS Transactions, Aisled Timber Halls and Related Buildings, 1969, p.56: Pevsner 1977: RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3228934462

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 162418
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
'Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society' in Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, (1969), 56

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.