Barn About 20 Metres South West of Old Warren Farmhouse

BARN ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF OLD WARREN FARMHOUSE, ACTON TURVILLE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1213234
Date first listed:
15-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Barn About 20 Metres South West of Old Warren Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
BARN ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF OLD WARREN FARMHOUSE, ACTON TURVILLE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1213234
Date first listed:
15-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Barn About 20 Metres South West of Old Warren Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BARN ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF OLD WARREN FARMHOUSE, ACTON TURVILLE ROAD

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
BARN ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF OLD WARREN FARMHOUSE, ACTON TURVILLE ROAD

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

District:
South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Tormarton
National Grid Reference:
ST 79132 79760

Details

ST 77 NE TORMARTON C.P. ACTON TURVILLE ROAD (south side)

6/231 Barn about 20 metres south west of Old Warren Farmhouse

- II

Barn. Mid C18, by Thomas Wright (working for 4th Duke of Beaufort at Badminton 1748-56). Coursed rubble with stone dressings and quoins, stone tiled roof. Gothick style. Central high cart entry with half-hipped roof, mock arrow-slit with circular ends to each side with ventilation slit open in centre. Right return has embattled curved corner turrets with blind arrow-slits, raised central parapet wall with 3 merlons and blind bull's eye at upper level, 3 cross-slits at ground floor level; single storey gabled attached wing with roof missing at time of survey (October 1984). Left return as right, with owlhole above oculus. Rear has cart entry with cambered timber lintel, 2 blocked ventilation slits to right and one to left, large C20 lean-to addition of no special architectural interest. Interior: 7-bay roof, principal rafters with plated yokes. 2 rows of purlins and scissors trusses. Great picturesque landscape value, part of designed landscape of Beaufort estate in C18. (Sources: Harris, E. : articles in Country Life, August and 9th September, 1971).

Listing NGR: ST7913279760

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Legacy System number:
397673
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Country Life in 9 September, (1971)
Country Life in August, (1971)

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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.

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