Tithe Barn, Hartpury Court
TITHE BARN, HARTPURY COURT, MURRELLS END ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1172209
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Tithe Barn, Hartpury Court
- Statutory Address:
- TITHE BARN, HARTPURY COURT, MURRELLS END ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1172209
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Tithe Barn, Hartpury Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- TITHE BARN, HARTPURY COURT, MURRELLS END ROAD
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:
- TITHE BARN, HARTPURY COURT, MURRELLS END ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hartpury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 77985 23642
Details
SO 72 SE HARTPURY MURRELLS END ROAD
8/57 Tithe Barn, Hartpury Court
2.10.54
GV II*
Barn: C15, altered C18 and C19; for St. Peter's Abbey, Gloucester. Coursed, squared stone, tiled roof, stone ridges. 11 bays with with 2 porches on south side. Buttresses square set,original with plinth and 2 offsets, some rebuilt with 1 slope or as a triangle. Gable to road, corner and central buttresses, 2 slit air vents. Left, main face divided into 3 by porches, each section with slit air vents in outer bays, elliptical-headed doorway with stone voussoirs and projecting keystone in centre, short slit air vent over: sliding door internally. In first section air vent adjoining porch replaced by square-headed window, stone voussoirs, projecting keystone. Porch walls same height as barn: diagonal corner buttresses: parapet gable with projecting kneelers, cross-gablet apex with decorative stone finial. Doorways chamfered jambs, first porch with pointed head, infilled boarding, with 2 openings for pigeons or owls; below double boarded doors. Second porch elliptical head to opening, doors missing. Main roof red tiles, with blue forming overall pattern on south side only, north plain. Parapet gables, with heraldic animal on apex. Back wall, square- headed, low openings to threshing floors, second walled up. Between slit air vents, elliptical-headed small openings in second and third sections only. On south side C19 brick-walled cow yard, English bond, stone coping, corner piers; runs from first porch to west end. East wall raised slightly in part mid C20. Interior: East porch opens onto stone-paved threshing floor: on left 2 rows cowtying run rest of length of barn, facing each other across feeding passage with tramway and waggon surviving. Left side low brick wall bullnose top, brick trough with timber edge, original timber posts: rough rails between an alteration. Right side higher wall with openings at regular intervals for feeding: some hooks for sliding shutters remain; trough: head end of partitions between pairs of cows survives in most cases. Roof: 2 original braced collar trusses, either side east threshing floor; curved wind braces. Truss at west end 1981; remainder probably C18, very unusual type, collar, kingpost, braces to collar extend under feet of principal rafters. 3 pairs purlins. Collars clasp principal rafters, thicker in centre than at ends to west of threshing floor. Built as tithe barn; new roof trusses probably C18, largely converted to cow house in mid C19, when patterned roof applied and elliptical-headed small doors cut. Cows on north for milking, south fat stock, east end of barn threshing in 1919. Roof to covered yard not of special interest. (Sale Catalogue, Hartpury Estate, 1919; notes on barn by J.E.C. Peters, 1978.)
Listing NGR: SO7797723644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 125589
- 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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