Barn and attached store in the farmyard at Lyng Court

Barn and attached store in the farmyard at Lyng Court, West Lyng

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1173947
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: Barn and attached store in the farmyard at Lyng Court
Statutory Address:: Barn and attached store in the farmyard at Lyng Court, West Lyng

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1173947
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: Barn and attached store in the farmyard at Lyng Court
Statutory Address 1:: Barn and attached store in the farmyard at Lyng Court, West Lyng

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: Barn and attached store in the farmyard at Lyng Court, West Lyng

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lyng
National Grid Reference:: ST 31759 28094

Details

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LYNG CP WEST LYNG Barn and attached store in the farmyard at Lyng Court

24.06.87 II Tithe barn, for Athelney Abbey. Late medieval, much C18 and C19 alteration; extended circa C19. Limestone rubble, some coursed and squared with a Ham Hill stone plinth with set-off, and stone and brick dressings. A hipped pantiled roof.

PLAN: rectangular seven bay plan, with a central threshing bay with opposing entrances. Extended at south end.

EXTERIOR: substantial two-stage buttresses at three corners with set-offs and ruined fragments of the base of fourth, north west buttress. Plain ventilation slits to all sides are stone-framed with wide internal splays, some are blocked. Principal elevation has projecting entrance porch, angle-buttresses each side of doorway, set-offs; bricked up principal opening with chamfered jambs and springers of the original arch, small C19 doorway inserted; chamfered four-centred head door opening in porch side wall, blocked. Attached to south is a C19 covered store of similar materials with a double Roman tiled roof that is half-hipped to south. There is a large opening to east and a smaller entrance with brick dressings on west side.

INTERIOR: seven bay interior with later roof, three machine-cut king post trusses with diagonal braces in south half and three trusses with principals linked by tie-beams and collars in north half, probably C19. One single, medieval truss with an arch-braced collar survives in the west porch. Some projecting corbels are set high up and probably mark a former floor level. The central threshing bay is now planked and a modern vehicle inspection pit has been cut into it.

HISTORY: the manor of Lyng formed part of King Alfred's endowment to the Benedictine abbey of Athelney on its foundation in the tenth century. A house known as the "Court" is documented at Lyng in 1529, and there is a suggestion that there was also a chapel at the site. Following the abbey's dissolution in 1539, Lyng passed into lay hands.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: this is a substantially intact late medieval tithe barn, with attached C19 covered store. It originally formed part of the estate of the abbey of Athelney and, despite the loss of the original roof, retains much of its original plan, outward form and architectural detailing.

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Legacy System number:: 269549
Legacy System:: LBS

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