Abbey Barn
ABBEY BARN, PRESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1173463
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Barn
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY BARN, PRESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1173463
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY BARN, PRESTON 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:
- ABBEY BARN, PRESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yeovil
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5363916271
Details
ST51NW
1/69
YEOVIL CP
PRESTON ROAD (North side)
Abbey Barn
(formerly listed as Tithe Barn)
19.3.51
-
I
Barn (now building contractors showroom and store) apparently c1420,
contemporary with, (and set close at right angles to) Abbey Farm Farmhouse. Local
stone, squared and tooled, with stone tiled roof set between coped gables.
10-bays, marked by double offset buttresses and projecting porches to North and
South flanks. Ends have centre and diagonal buttresses. Porches have diagonal
buttresses, with high double doors and wicket entrances set in two centre arches
double chamfered with no capitals or abaci; long unglazed slit windows to each
bay. Plinth to all walls, finials to gables. Later Tudor door added in
South-west corner. Interior now much obscured by independant structure erected
for present use, but roof is clearly visible. The trusses are raised crucks,
morticed and tenoned at apex, (with additional trusses at gable ends); a form of
jointed cruck, with 4-rows of trenched purlins, the lowest almost on the head of
the wall (the walls are headed with well cut stone and the rafters end clear of
the wall). Curved windbraces to two lower panels, frame oak and elm, rafters
modern (roof slightly damaged by bomb in 1940). At 31.4 metres inside, the
longest barn in Somerset, (see Country Life Vol. 112 p. 1117 and Buckler
drawing, Taunton Museum). Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: ST5363916271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261407
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 112, (), 1117
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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