Benson's Barn and Country Cottage
BENSON'S BARN AND COUNTRY COTTAGE, UMBERSLADE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382480
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Benson's Barn and Country Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BENSON'S BARN AND COUNTRY COTTAGE, UMBERSLADE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382480
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Benson's Barn and Country Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BENSON'S BARN AND COUNTRY COTTAGE, UMBERSLADE 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:
- BENSON'S BARN AND COUNTRY COTTAGE, UMBERSLADE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tanworth-in-Arden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 12777 72746
Details
TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN
SP17SW UMBERSLADE ROAD
652-1/2/186 (East side)
16/02/88 Benson's Barn and Country Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
UMBERSLADE ROAD, Tanworth-In-Arden
(North side)
Barn and stable approx. 25m. east of
Old Grove Farmhouse)
GV II
Barn and stable, now 2 houses. Earlier C18, altered 1781 (date
on brick), with conversion to houses c1990. Timber-framed with
C18 and C19 red brick nogging and red brick. Gabled plain-tile
roofs. L-plan.
EXTERIOR: barn: 3 bays of large-panel framing with narrow
upper intermediate rails and diagonal down-braces to garden
facade, brick to front facade. Brick plinth. Central opposing
threshing doorways, now glazed, and doorway in C19 brick wall
to left. Central cross frames have down-braces and brick
infill to first rail level. Jowled studs.
Former stable: projects forward and has, on left side, a
central door flanked by shuttered windows. Brick cambered
lintels. Loft door over. Brick dentilled eaves.
INTERIOR: barn: queen-strut trusses to centre, queen-post to
gable ends. Some probably early C19 renewal of purlins.
Clasped purlins and ridge piece. Stone-flagged threshing
floor. Former stable: has chamfered spine beams.
Forms a group with Old Grove Farmhouse (qv).
Listing NGR: SP1277772746
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482864
- 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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