South Barn and Adjoining Stable at Rectory Farm
SOUTH BARN AND ADJOINING STABLE AT RECTORY FARM, SHILLINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347094
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- South Barn and Adjoining Stable at Rectory Farm
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH BARN AND ADJOINING STABLE AT RECTORY FARM, SHILLINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347094
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- South Barn and Adjoining Stable at Rectory Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH BARN AND ADJOINING STABLE AT RECTORY FARM, SHILLINGTON 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:
- SOUTH BARN AND ADJOINING STABLE AT RECTORY FARM, SHILLINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pirton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14136 31874
Details
PIRTON SHILLINGTON ROAD TL 1431 (North side)
7/173 South Barn and 27.5.68 adjoining stable at Rectory Farm
GV II
Barn and stable. Late C16 and late C17. Timber framed on stuccoed brick sills, dark weatherboarded, exposed N front to barn with red brick infill, red brick facing to W end of barn. Steep red tile roofs. A tall, 5 bays barn with gabled projecting central N porch and 3-bays narrower stable adjoining to E, both backing onto road and facing N. The barn has long stepped jowls to bay-posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, mid-height rail jointed in-line, long straight tension braces at corners and in 2nd and 4th bays. Long straight braces to tie beams, and to wallplate in porch bay. Edge-halved scarf joint in wallplate with bridled butts. Roof of unusual experimental design with 2 purlins to each slope. Lower butt-purlin jointed to principal rafter of the truss with a single collar at mid-height with inclined queen struts under. Upper purlin clasped by heavy broad inclined queen-posts rising from collar to principal. Rafters jointed into lower purlin. In several bays this experimental arrangement has caused failure due to the principal rafter not being supported at the point where the lower purlins are butt jointed in-line. Extra purlins have been inserted a little higher at staggered heights clasped by short horizontal ties below the collar from the queen-strut to the principal. Thin slender straight wind-braces. Lower gabled single-bay porch with single clasped purlin to each slope carried by a collar in the gable. The stable has jowled posts, slender straight tension braces, straight braces to cambered tie-beams, one purlin to each slope carried on inclined queen-posts.
Listing NGR: TL1413631874
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163183
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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