Paston Great Barn

Paston Great Barn, Bacton Road, Paston

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1306240
Date first listed:: 16-Apr-1955
List Entry Name:: Paston Great Barn
Statutory Address:: Paston Great Barn, Bacton Road, Paston

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1306240
Date first listed:: 16-Apr-1955
List Entry Name:: Paston Great Barn
Statutory Address 1:: Paston Great Barn, Bacton Road, Paston

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:: Paston Great Barn, Bacton Road, Paston

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: North Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Paston
National Grid Reference:: TG 32190 34538

Details

TG 33 SH 4/80

PASTON BACTON ROAD Paston Great Barn

16.4.55

II*

Barn. Dated 1581. Coursed Quaternary flint and chert with brick and Lincolnshire Limestone ashlar dressings. Thatched roof.

East side. Two full height double doors symmetrically placed flanked by slated stepped buttresses. Further stepped buttresses at intervals. Slit lights to flanks, the lower halves blocked. Gabled roof. North gable wall with two tiers vertical slits and further slit light at apex. Date plaque 1581.

West side. Three stepped buttresses and doors opposite the eastern entrances. Slit lights as before. Later flint and brick engine house built against wall with hipped thatched roof. Over south door a plaque bearing inscription: THE BILDING OF THIS BEARNE IS Bl SIR W PASTON KNIGHTE (sic). South gable with two tiers ventilation slits and further light in apex.

Interior. Ventilation slits splayed on interior. Magnificent roof of alternating tie beam and hammerbeam trusses, all on arched braces dropping to wall posts on timber corbels. Queen struts rise to principals and are linked to collars by arched braces. Subsidiary collars above. Three tiers butt purlins and curved windbracing below second tier. Scheduled Ancient Monument, County number 168.

Listing NGR: TG3219034538

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Legacy System number:: 224294
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 24 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

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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.