THE TITHE BARN

THE TITHE BARN, MIDDLE LITTLETON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1350092
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:: THE TITHE BARN
Statutory Address:: THE TITHE BARN, MIDDLE LITTLETON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1350092
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:: THE TITHE BARN
Statutory Address 1:: THE TITHE BARN, MIDDLE LITTLETON

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:: THE TITHE BARN, MIDDLE LITTLETON

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County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: North and Middle Littleton
National Grid Reference:: SP 07987 47069

Details

SP 04 NE NORTH & MIDDLE LITTLETON MIDDLE LITTLETON 2/20

30.7.59 The Tithe Barn GV I

Tithe Barn early C14 built for Abbey of Evesham. Blue lias stone with Cotswold stone dressings and stone tile roof. 136 ft long, 30 ft wide and 40 ft high. Originally 2 large projecting gabled cart entrances on South side and to smaller gabled rear entrances. Only the Western pair, front and rear survive. Coped gables with ornate clover-leaf finials, 2 original, 2 copies. Central buttresses to end gables, buttresses between bays and long ventilating loops. Eleven bays, 8 large raised base crucks carrying upper collar-and-tie-beam trusses. At each end an aisled bay with collar-and-tie-beam truss carried on aisle post. Triple purlin roof. Wind bracing throughout. Attached at each end C19 additions of minor interest; at West end L-plan stable range with small barn attached, half-hipped plain tile roof; at East end a low slate roofed range coming forward with 2-storey barn attached.

Horn & Charles: Journal of Soc of Arch Historians 25 1966 4 221-39.

Listing NGR: SP0798747069

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Legacy System number:: 147612
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain' in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, (1966), 221-39

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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.