NORTH BARN 75 METRES NORTH-NORTH-WEST OF THE ABBOT'S PORCH.

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1323850
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: NORTH BARN 75 METRES NORTH-NORTH-WEST OF THE ABBOT'S PORCH.
Statutory Address:: NORTH BARN 75 METRES NORTH-NORTH-WEST OF THE ABBOT'S PORCH.

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1323850
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: NORTH BARN 75 METRES NORTH-NORTH-WEST OF THE ABBOT'S PORCH.
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH BARN 75 METRES NORTH-NORTH-WEST OF THE ABBOT'S PORCH.

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:: NORTH BARN 75 METRES NORTH-NORTH-WEST OF THE ABBOT'S PORCH.

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cerne Abbas
National Grid Reference:: ST 66479 01484

Details

ST 6601 CERNE ABBAS CERNE ABBEY

11/61 North Barn 75 metres north-north-west of 26.1.56 the Abbot's Porch.

GV II*

Barn. Early C16. Greensand and chalk-block walls. Corrugated iron roof over thatch. Stone gable-copings with moulded apices. Two laterally opposed porches, C19. South gable wall has a door- way with straight-chamfered jambs and depressed-arch head, C16. Plank door. Sculptured piece of foliage over doorway. Two loop-lights on east wall. Roof: 7 bays of arch-braced collar- beam construction, with the braces set into the wall for c 35cm, and principals resting on wall. Two sets of through-purlins, the two lower tiers have some original wind-bracing in situ. This medieval monastic building is important in itself, and as part of the abbey complex of buildings and earthworks. Scheduled Ancient Monument, Dorset 26.

(RCHM Dorset I, p79(2))

Listing NGR: ST6647901484

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Legacy System number:: 105386
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Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 79

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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.