Whiston Hall Barn
Whiston Hall Barn, Chaff Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1132687
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Whiston Hall Barn
- Statutory Address:
- Whiston Hall Barn, Chaff Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1132687
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Whiston Hall Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- Whiston Hall Barn, Chaff 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:
- Whiston Hall Barn, Chaff Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Whiston
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 44734 90053
Details
SK49SW
5/97
WHISTON
CHAFF LANE (north side)
Whiston Hall Barn
GV
II*
Barn now derelict. Probably C13 or C14, altered and enlarged C16, walling probably C17 with later alterations. Post and truss timber framing; coursed rubble and dressed sandstone; no roof covering at time of resurvey. Single storey, eight bays with aisles. Exterior walling much altered and partly rebuilt c1980; retains impressive gable walls with numerous slit vents to south end.
Interior: five bays at south end of earlier build indicated by several significant features:
1) wall posts erected in position of growth, transverse lever holes and halvings for passing braces.
2) evidence of reverse assembly in aisle construction.
3) early joint forms including trait-de-jupiter arcade plate scarfs and notched lap joints to arcade braces.
Roof structure rebuilt in principal-rafter form in C16 but original collar-rafter roof indicated by reused rafters.The three bays at north end show typical post and truss construction details of C16 date. Various added posts and tie beams confuse the bay divisions.
The barn is the oldest example of an agricultural building in the county and the earliest timber-framed structure for which there are no regional parallels to date. Comparison may be made with the Barley Barn, Cressing Temple, Essex for which a date as early as c1200 has been claimed (Hewett cited by Jones).
Listing NGR: SK4473490053
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335733
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jones, S R, Whiston Hall Barn, Whiston in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 137, (1980), 431-33
Ryder, P F, Timber Framed Buildings in South Yorkshire in County Archaeology Monograph No 1, (undated), appendix 1, plates 9,10
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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