The Great Barn at Newhouse Grange
THE GREAT BARN AT NEWHOUSE GRANGE, ORTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361280
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Barn at Newhouse Grange
- Statutory Address:
- THE GREAT BARN AT NEWHOUSE GRANGE, ORTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361280
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Barn at Newhouse Grange
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GREAT BARN AT NEWHOUSE GRANGE, ORTON LANE
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:
- THE GREAT BARN AT NEWHOUSE GRANGE, ORTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Hinckley and Bosworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sheepy
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 31764 02349
Details
SK30SW; 3/91
SHEEPY,
ORTON LANE,
SHEEPY MAGNA (south side),
The Great Barn at Newhouse Grange
07.11.66
GV
II*
Large medieval aisled barn. C14-C15. Timber-framed largely with C18-C19
brick infilling. Plain-tiled roof. Paired doors with chamfered lintel ashlar
surrounds in gable end. Three sets of wide double doors in long elevation. Seven
bays. High brick plinth inside, square pillars on high stone bases carry
spurs to the wall plate and are braced to a collar. From this, queen struts
rise to a higher collar. Each bay has secondary truss with wall post
supporting cambered truss rising to higher collar. Common rafters are carried
by four sets of pullins and there are wind braces in 1st, 3rd and 4th section of
the roof slope. No ridge piece. One complete partition to east, framed
in close-studded panels and with a tie beam as well as the collars.
Main roof is carried in a continuous sweep over the aisles, and at each gable,
is hipped with gablet.
Said "to have been the storehouse for the
Leicestershire portion of the produce belonging to Merevale Abbey", White's
Leicester, 1863.
Listing NGR: SK3176402349
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188087
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in Leicester, (1863)
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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