Tithe Barn at Place Farm
TITHE BARN AT PLACE FARM, COURT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1318824
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Tithe Barn at Place Farm
- Statutory Address:
- TITHE BARN AT PLACE FARM, COURT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1318824
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Tithe Barn at Place Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- TITHE BARN AT PLACE FARM, COURT STREET
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:
- TITHE BARN AT PLACE FARM, COURT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tisbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 95177 29840
Details
TISBURY COURT STREET ST 92 NE (north side)
5/212 Tithe Barn at Place Farm 6.1.66 GV I
Tithe barn to monastic grange. C15. Rubble stone and dressed limestone, thatched roof, formerly stone slates, with coped verges and staddlestones. Thirteen bays. Central opposing gabled porches with angle buttresses and double chamfered pointed doorways, planked doors, coped verge with finial, west side has C19 Tudor-arched double planked doors either side, north side has square-headed planked doors either side of central porch, either side of porches are 6 buttresses with offsets and 5 tall arrow loop vents. South and north gables have central buttress with arrow loops either side and above. Interior has 13 bays with raised cruck trusses, each with arch- braced collar and upper collar, some are cranked, braced saddle to apex. Three tiers of through purlins, some straight windbracing retained. Reputedly the largest tithe barn in England, though not the longest. Together with the farmhouse and gatehouses (q.v.), this barn is part of one of the finest surviving groups of monastic grange buildings in England. Owned by the Abbess of Shaftesbury until the Dissolution. Ancient Monument, Wiltshire, No 242. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975; Country Life, 10 May 1919)
Listing NGR: ST9517329851
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321001
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
Country Life in 10 May, (1919)
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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