Barns at Warden Abbey Farm

BARNS AT WARDEN ABBEY FARM

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1274805
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1972
Statutory Address:
BARNS AT WARDEN ABBEY FARM
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1274805
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1972
Statutory Address 1:
BARNS AT WARDEN ABBEY FARM

Location

Statutory Address:
BARNS AT WARDEN ABBEY FARM

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

District:
Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Old Warden
National Grid Reference:
TL 11958 43926

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TL 14 SW OLD WARDEN

5/114 Barns at Warden Abbey Farm

GV 16.3.72 II

The grade shall be amended to read:- GV II*

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TL 14SW OLD WARDEN

5/114 Barns at Warden Abbey Farm 16.3.72

GV II

Barns. Late C16. Formed part of Robert Gostwick's Warden Abbey complex. Variety of brick, mostly red, some yellow, with some diaper patterning. Some 2 inch brickwork. Some stone dressings. Clay tile roofs. L-plan, large barn to W and long lower barn to E. W barn: 2-stage angle buttresses with stone dressings. Entrance to W elevation has been altered and repaired. E elevation has plank door, with smaller buttress to L. 5-bay roof structure has tenoned purlins on 2 levels, with 2 rows of curved wind braces, and collars and queen struts. Gable ends at roof level are weatherboarded. E barn: variety of openings to S elevation, somewhat altered and repaired, the double plank doors to RH breaking through the eaves level. 6-bay roof structure has 2 levels of clasped purlins with collars and struts, and some curved wind braces. E gable end at roof level is rendered.

Listing NGR: TL1195843926

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414254
Legacy System:
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