Great Barn
GREAT BARN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1286423
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Great Barn
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT BARN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1286423
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Great Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT BARN
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:
- GREAT BARN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Avebury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 10034 70034
Details
AVEBURY - SU 17 SW 11/43 Great Barn 22.8.66
GV I
Glebe barn attached to Manor Farm, now Wiltshire Folk Life study centre. Late C17. Timber framed and weatherboarded on stone sills. Thatched roof. Nine bays, with aisles returned at ends. Cartways in bays 2 and 8, bay 2 extended to north later by 1 bay forming porch. C20 glazed openings in weatherboarding on both sides. Roof has gablets and pent roofs over aisles, but attached to stone outbuildings on east end. Interior has tie beam trusses with struts to aisle posts supported on limestone pads, the posts deeply haunched. Raking struts to principal rafters and straight windbraces to single purlins. At ends, purlins supported by single re-used cruck blades. Purlin struts at half bays. Scarfs are square butt squinted joints. The barn contains much re-used timber but was re-numbered from the east end on erection. Restored 1978 for display of farm and country life.
Listing NGR: SU0999270007
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 311464
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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