Former Great Barn at Bursteads 35 Metres North East of House
Brightside Barn, Spellbrook Lane , CM21 0NB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290870
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Former Great Barn at Bursteads 35 Metres North East of House
- Statutory Address:
- Brightside Barn, Spellbrook Lane , CM21 0NB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290870
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Former Great Barn at Bursteads 35 Metres North East of House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Brightside Barn, Spellbrook Lane , CM21 0NB
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:
- Brightside Barn, Spellbrook Lane , CM21 0NB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- High Wych
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 47672 17256
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 January 2026 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
TL 41 NE
4/45
HIGH WYCH
Trims Green
SPELLBROOK LANE
Brightside Barn
(Formerly listed as SPELLBROOK LANE WEST (west side) Great Barn at Bursteads 35 metres NE of house)
GV
II*
Barn. C16. Large, late medieval, seven-bay aisled barn at manorial centre of the manor of Chamberlains alias Bursteads (VCH III (1912) 341-2, interior view on p 343). Timber frame, weatherboarded on low sill wall. High steeply pitched roof, hipped at W end but quarter-hipped only at E. Now covered in corrugated iron, but still thatched when described by VCH in 1912. Heavy jowled arcade posts with long, slightly curved braces to tie beams but shorter straight braces to arcade plate, which is jointed over every post with a long face-halved and bladed scarf joint. Spur sills join the feet of the posts to the aisle wall and there is a curved down brace from the post to this sill, joined to the post a little below the aisle tie beam. Heavy collar trusses with slender straight queen struts across the lower angles. Single row of butt purlins staggered in height. Forms a group with the house.
Listing NGR: TL4767217256
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394412
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 341-2
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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