Tithe Barn Approximately 80M West of Frocester Court
TITHE BARN APPROXIMATELY 80M WEST OF FROCESTER COURT, COURT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1340418
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- Statutory Address:
- TITHE BARN APPROXIMATELY 80M WEST OF FROCESTER COURT, COURT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1340418
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Mar-1988
- Statutory Address 1:
- TITHE BARN APPROXIMATELY 80M WEST OF FROCESTER COURT, COURT ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TITHE BARN APPROXIMATELY 80M WEST OF FROCESTER COURT, COURT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Frocester
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 78634 02942
Details
SO 7802 FROCESTER COURT ROAD (south end)
9/111 Tithe Barn approximately 80m west of Frocester Court (previously listed with 10.1.55 Frocester Court)
GV I
Tithe barn. c1300; roof rebuilt early C16. Mid C19 alterations. Coursed and random rubble limestone, roughcast render to south-west end; stone slate roof. Thirteen-bay barn with 2 south-east porches, outshut shelter between. Offset buttresses to sides, mostly rebuilt at various periods. Two gabled porches to south-east side with casement in roughcast rendered gable, plank barn doors below. Outshut between porches added in C19 has flying buttress structure supporting smaller earlier buttresses. Two inserted pointed arched openings inserted on south-east side in C19; one similar to north-west in line with gabled porch. Slit vents to some other bays. Parapet gabled ends with slit vents. Interior: raised base cruck roof structure with strutting to arched bracing. Principal purlin at main collar level with arched windbracing. Number of bays doubled above purlin, secondary purlin having more arched windbracing, creating cross pattern effect. Another set of secondary purlins below main collar level without windbracing. C19 raised platform in 2 bays for water- powered milling machinery. Almost certainly the 'magna grangia de Froucestre' built by John de Gamages, abbot (1284-1306) of St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester. Recent investigations have shown that roof is an early C16 replacement after extensive fire, probably a close copy but with unusual process of erection due to pre-existing structure. Later in C16, after purchase by George Huntley, end bays converted to part domestic use, partitions and floors later removed. One of the most important medieval tithe barns in the country, despite the later post-medieval roof. Set of C19 shelter sheds and yards stand immediately to south-east (q.v.). (F.W.B. Charles and W. Horn, 'The Cruck-Built Barn of Frocester Court Farm, Gloucestershire, England' in J.S.A.H., 1983; N.M. Herbert, 'Frocester' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp. 170-178; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1976)
Listing NGR: SO7863402942
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 132905
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972), 170-8
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, (1983)
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