Barn at Grove Farm
BARN AT GROVE FARM, WITHERSDALE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390072
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Grove Farm
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AT GROVE FARM, WITHERSDALE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390072
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Grove Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AT GROVE FARM, WITHERSDALE 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:
- BARN AT GROVE FARM, WITHERSDALE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mendham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM2784779709
Details
1220/0/10009
09-SEP-02
MENDHAM
WITHERSDALE ROAD
Barn at Grove Farm
GV
II
Barn. Early/mid C17. Weatherboarded timber frame with brick plinth and pantile roof. 3 bays. Off-centre double doors and, to rear, a lean-to. Lower extension on right end.
INTERIOR. Tall panel framing with cranked trenched wall braces to corner posts. Jowled wall posts. Tie beams with straight braces. Principal rafter-roof with coupled rafters, the principals not in line with the ties. 2 tiers of butt purlins, the upper with collars and with arched wind braces. The original north elevation (now largely enclosed by the later lean-to) has its original cladding largely intact, comprising a horizontal boarded plinth, nailed to the outer face, with internal wattle and daub between the studs. These panels are supported at the junction with the boards by a ledge, which is grooved into the studs.
The extension is probably C18 and also has tall panel framing.
This barn is of special interest not only for the survival of the timber frame and roof but also because of the survival of a section of the original cladding. This is unusually complete and is of interest as an example of what is believed to have once been a common method of facing timber-framed barns in East Anglia.
The barn forms a group with the nearby granary (qv).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489042
- 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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