THE TITHE BARN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248810
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: THE TITHE BARN
Statutory Address:: THE TITHE BARN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248810
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: THE TITHE BARN
Statutory Address 1:: THE TITHE BARN

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE TITHE BARN

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tatworth and Forton
National Grid Reference:: ST3516205660

Details

TATWORTH AND FORTON CP ST30NE -

9/90 The Tithe Barn

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- II

Farmhouse, now dwelling. C16,cider house or barn added possibly C18, extensively restored 1970s. Random rubble local stone, roughcast end 3-bays left and rendered at rear, quoins to right gable end and distinguishing end of original building right, brick stack above and at left gable end thatched roof. Original plan not clear, now 3-cell with agricultural addition at east end converted to kitchen Two storeys, 3:2:2 bays, and 3 bays left recessed with brick surrounds to all openings to right, all C20 casements, entrance third bay left but resited at west side of this bay, C20 door; right return gable end large plate glass window first floor and C20 French windows below. Interior: the restoration by a previous occupant in the 1970s makes it difficult to be sure whether some features are resited, imported or reconstructions, given that the plan does not conform to standard types for the area. East end road depressed Tudor arch head Ham stone chimneypiece, very large lintel slab, new or renewed chamfered jambs with bottle stops, spice cupboard beside, chamfered boars with splayed step and runout stops, plank and muntin screen chamfered on both sides to central room, timber- framed partition on front wall of central room with WC on site of former entrance, entrance now to west, blocked rear doorway of through passage, timbered framed partition to west end room, chamfered bearm with step and runout slogs, stone jabs to fireplace with renewed lintel and winder stair set against front wall. First floor 2 small Tudor arch head Ham stone fireplaces framed partition to jointed truck truss, 2 other pairs of jointed cruck trusses, no evidence of smoke blackening but roof space not accessible. The arrangement of the ground floor central rood is confusing, too small for hall and through passage, too wide for through passage only. Uncertain whether the building was originally a barn belonging to nearby Forde Abbey in Dorset, converted to a dwelling in the mid-late C16. It is unlikely that it was ever a tithe barn.

Listing NGR: ST3516205660

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Legacy System number:: 430547
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.