Barn approximately 50 yards west of Membury Court

Membury Court, Membury, Axminster, EX13 7TL

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Overview

A stone threshing barn of C18 date with C19 alterations. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170750
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: Barn approximately 50 yards west of Membury Court
Statutory Address:: Membury Court, Membury, Axminster, EX13 7TL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170750
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Jun-2015
List Entry Name:: Barn approximately 50 yards west of Membury Court
Statutory Address 1:: Membury Court, Membury, Axminster, EX13 7TL

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Membury Court, Membury, Axminster, EX13 7TL

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Membury
National Grid Reference:: ST2636003791

Summary

A stone threshing barn of C18 date with C19 alterations.

Reasons for Designation

The barn approximately 50 yards west of Membury Court, Membury, Devon is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: a well-articulated threshing barn with stone quoins; * Historic interest: for its association with the early medieval Manor House site at Membury, associated with Goldcliff Priory, and later the Duke of Warwick, Abbey of Tewkesbury and Dean and Chapter of Windsor. Membury Court has a long and rich history with significant associations of historic note; * Intactness: relatively unaltered with an intact threshing floor and doors, and earlier structural fabric in the form of cruck posts embedded in the side walls; * Group value: an important historic farmstead, including a medieval hall house, an early-C14 chapel and possibly one of the earliest farm buildings in Devon.

History

There is evidence of Romano-British occupation in the vicinity of Membury Court (qv), and a villa site was excavated in the field to the north of the Cider Barn/ Chapel (qv) in 2014. At Domesday (1086), Membury Court was the manor house of the Manor of Membury, and was given to Goldcliff Priory in Monmouthshire by owner Robert de Chandos in 1113. The earliest surviving fabric within Membury Court, parts of the medieval hall house roof, probably dates to the late C14 or early C15. The major rebuilding of the house took place in c.1580-1650, and further alterations were carried out in the C18 and C19, and later.

The earliest farm building on the site is the linhay (qv), which is probably partly medieval in origin. The threshing barn was built in the C18 and a 1745 survey describes it as having four bays. It was altered in the C19 and extended by one bay. It was re-roofed in 1926. In the C20 the north end was floored and partitioned off for a granary, and the barn was used as a cattle shed. .

Details

A threshing barn of C18 date, extended in the C19.

MATERIALS: rubble stone with limestone quoins and dressings, and timber roof structure.

DESCRIPTION: constructed on a north-south axis, the barn is of five bays. At the north end is an enclosed, lofted, single-bay section, once used as a granary. The main barn has opposing threshing doors and a full-size cart doorway. The posts of two side-pegged jointed cruck trusses survive in the west wall on either side of the rear threshing door. There is a mortise on one for a screen wall. The threshing floor is intact. The half-hipped C20 roof has tie beam trusses and king ties, with bolted lap-jointed collars and three sets of trenched purlins. The north end is divided by a stone rubble wall to loft height and a boarded loft wall with a door at first-floor level. The loft has timber corn bins. The roof is covered in corrugated iron.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 88043
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
Devon and Dartmoor HER: MDV27189 - Threshing Barn, Membury Court, accessed 19/02/2015 from http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV27189&resourceID=104
Other
Membury Court, Devon: Medieval House and Chapel, J Thorp, 1993

Legal

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