Barn at Highfield Farm
BARN AT HIGHFIELD FARM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387734
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Highfield Farm
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AT HIGHFIELD FARM
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14747/11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387734
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Highfield Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AT HIGHFIELD FARM
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:
- BARN AT HIGHFIELD FARM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wargrave
- National Grid Reference:
- SU7989480027
Details
SU 78 SE
1110/1/10010
WARGRAVE
Barn at Highfield Farm
II
Barn. Dated 1790; C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed with weatherboard cladding (some original) on plinth of brick, flint and chalk. Plain tile roof. 5 bays with central, opposed, cart-entries, that on south side in gabled midstrey; outshut under catslide roof added to left bays on south side. North cart-entry has double board doors; those of south cart-entry replaced by weatherboard with pedestrian entrance. C20 windows to gables. Board door to outshut. Interior: original timber frame, including: sole-plate; jowelled wall-posts with curved and straight braces to wall-plate and tie-beams; intermediate posts and studs; mid-rail; double purlin roof structure with principal rafter trusses, three of these having curved secondary rafters supporting collars, other trusses having straight secondary rafters supporting collars; plank ridge-piece with yokes at trusses; rafters; straight wind braces. One of the central tie-beams is inscribed "I H E S T 1790". Attached to the frame are the remnants of the drive mechanism for former agricultural machinery.
A dated example of a good-quality late-C18 timber-framed barn.
Listing NGR: SU7989480027
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475722
- 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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