BARN AND FARM BUILDINGS AT DEMESNE FARM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1138505
Date first listed:: 05-Sep-1986
List Entry Name:: BARN AND FARM BUILDINGS AT DEMESNE FARM
Statutory Address:: BARN AND FARM BUILDINGS AT DEMESNE FARM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1138505
Date first listed:: 05-Sep-1986
List Entry Name:: BARN AND FARM BUILDINGS AT DEMESNE FARM
Statutory Address 1:: BARN AND FARM BUILDINGS AT DEMESNE FARM

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:: BARN AND FARM BUILDINGS AT DEMESNE FARM

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Doddington and District
National Grid Reference:: SJ 70443 47283

Details

DODDINGTON C.P. DODDINGTON PARK SJ 74 NW 5/21 Barn and farm buildings - at Demesne Farm

GV II*

Barn and attached farm buildings. c . 1771-90 by Samuel Wyatt. Red Flemish bond brick originally with a slate roof now with slate and corrugated iron roof. Central barn forming the spine of the building with a V-shaped ranges of farm buildings at either end. The barn also has double transepts. South-west front. Projecting transepts to either side of lean-to with flanking lower wings projecting at 45º to the body of the barn. The central lean-to has 4 cast iron columns of rudimentary Doric form supporting a cast iron lintel. The flanking transepts have pedimental gables and cambered headed openings for double barn doors. The right-hand opening is now blocked to its lower body. Dentilled band of three bricks depth below the gables. The body of the barn has two Diocletian windows to the centre above the lean-to and similar lateral windows beyond the transepts below which are small lean-tos each with a cambered headed doorway and C20 window. The right hand wing has a wide double door opening to the far left with ashlar hinge dressings and cambered arch and to the right of it a series of eight cambered-headed blind arches (two of them now mutilated by inserted C20 windows). The left hand range is now punctured by C19 and C20 doors and windows but appears to have been similar originally. The north eastern front was originally similar but the central lean-to has been replaced by one of C20 brick and the angled wings have been altered by the insertion of doors and windows in the C19 and C20. Interior: the body of the barn has internal battered buttresses at the junctures with the transepts. The trusses are of Y-shape and there are wind braces. The north western and south eastern ends of the building where the angled wings meet the ends of the barn at right angles also have a series of blind cambered arches somewhat altered by later openings and blockings of doorways and windows. Each gable end of the barn has a Diocletian window to the gable. The end of each of the four angled wings originally had a central cambered doorway with circular pitch holes to either side.

Samuel Wyatt designed a similar barn for Coke of Norfolk at Holkham which lacked the attached ranges of farm buildings.

Listing NGR: SJ7044347283

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 57099
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,

Legal

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