BARN AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT CHURCH FARM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1379809
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: BARN AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT CHURCH FARM
Statutory Address:: BARN AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT CHURCH FARM

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1379809
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: BARN AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT CHURCH FARM
Statutory Address 1:: BARN AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT CHURCH FARM

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BARN AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT CHURCH FARM

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Bracon Ash
National Grid Reference:: TG 16849 00315

Details

TG 10 SE BRACON ASH HETHEL

76/2/10007 Barn and attached outbuildings at Church Farm

GV II*

Farm buildings. C17 barn and stable, remodelled and extended in the mid-late C18, further extended and altered mid-C19. Timber framing with wattle and daub infill, with C20 brick repair to barn and some weatherboarding. C19 additions in clay lump and Flemish bond brickwork. Clay pantile roof coverings.

PLAN: C17 5-bay BARN with central threshing floor, aligned east-west has C17 STABLE BLOCK (with mid C19 clay lump extension to north end) at right angles to south east. West gable of barn has C19 clay lump addition. Early-mid C19 SHELTER SHED extends southwards from west end of barn on south side,enclosing a large east yard. Attached at south end of shelter shed, an early-mid C19 RIDING HORSE STABLE, adjoining east wing of house (item 10009). North gable of house is attached to a mid-C19 L-plan SERVICE RANGE enclosing smaller west yard, and returns to join clay lump west extension to barn. Detached from main group, and to north is a cartshed (item 10008).

BARN: plank double threshing doors with strap hinges. Weatherboarding to south and C20 brick infill to north. Mid-C19 clay lump addition to west end. INTERIOR: 5-bay double purlin roof with diminished principals and clasped purlins to east end, and butt purlins elsewhere; morticed collar beams with some remaining wind braces carried down from principals to wall plates; wall framing with jowelled posts to tie beams. East end has replacementsawn roof timbers, inserted loft and loft stair. STABLE BLOCK: Rectangular stable with loft/granary above. Entrance with pitching hole to east, the door giving access to to the loft stair at the south end. Above, a dormer, centrally placed,with pitching door for loft. Doorway into the yard set in the south wall. South wall with window to upper floor, and doorway into a 3-bay mid- C19 clay lump shelter shed, open on the west side, and with a king post roof , attached at the west end of the stable. INTERIOR: timber-framed with jowelled posts and transverse bracing between posts and tie beam. Harness pegs and inserted partition across stable area. A shelter shed extends south from west end of barn, forming west side of east yard. It is attached to a mid-C19 riding horse stable and attached gig house which forms the south side of the yard. Porch to north doorway into yard. South elevation has lunette windows adjacent to the stable doors and double doors to the gig house at the east end. Mid-C19 L-plan service range encloses west side and north-east coner of a smaller west yard; east elevation has plank doors, C19 3-light casement and slatted rectangular window openings adjacent to each door.

This complex of farm buildings is an unusually complete example of a farmstead with vernacular buildings pre-dating the improvements of the mid C19. The barn, stable and cartshed display significant vernacular characteristics and functional detail which distinguish buildings of the period within this historically significant agricultural region. The C19 additions, also in the vernacular tradition, and partly built of clay lump form an important component of this group, demonstrating the significantly improved standard of buildings for housing cattle.

Listing NGR: TG1684200304

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Legacy System number:: 479218
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.