Cruck Barn
CRUCK BARN, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297345
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Cruck Barn
- Statutory Address:
- CRUCK BARN, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297345
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Cruck Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRUCK BARN, CHURCH ROAD
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:
- CRUCK BARN, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Tamworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 21298 99841
Details
TAMWORTH
SP29NW CHURCH ROAD, Dosthill 670-1/5/23 (East side) 22/07/53 Cruck Barn (Formerly Listed as: Barn at Church House Farm)
GV II
Barn, now converted and empty (1990). C15/C16. Timber-framed with brick infill; tile roof. 4-bay cruck construction with rear outshut. Square framing on rubble plinth with outshut under catslide roof to left end; former threshing-floor entrance has C20 infill and porch under catslide roof, wide-boarded inner door; some inserted windows. Left return has exposed cruck truss with cruck spurs and short king post on yoke; right return has brick replacing cruck truss. Rear: continuous outshut with C20 alterations to left with raised eaves; central threshing-floor entrance with paired doors; right end further outshut with 4 openings revealing inner timber framing, small gabled dormer above. Interior: cruck trusses with braced collars, cruck spurs and wind braces; one truss with C20 brick infill. (Trans. of S. Staffordshire Archaeological & Historical Society: A Four-bay Cruck Barn with Outshut at Dosthill, Tamworth, Staffs: 1972-1973: 45FF).
Listing NGR: SP2129899841
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386450
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Transactions in South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Transactions, (1973)
South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Transactions in South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Transactions, (1973)
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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