BARN AT 5 PIRNHOW STREET

BARN AT 5 PIRNHOW STREET, PIRNHOW STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390804
Date first listed:: 15-Sep-2004
List Entry Name:: BARN AT 5 PIRNHOW STREET
Statutory Address:: BARN AT 5 PIRNHOW STREET, PIRNHOW STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390804
Date first listed:: 15-Sep-2004
List Entry Name:: BARN AT 5 PIRNHOW STREET
Statutory Address 1:: BARN AT 5 PIRNHOW STREET, PIRNHOW STREET

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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BARN AT 5 PIRNHOW STREET, PIRNHOW STREET

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Broome
National Park:: THE BROADS
National Grid Reference:: TM3475590420

Details

1898/0/10014 15-SEP-04

BROOME PIRNHOW STREET 5 Barn at

GV II

Barn, c.1700. Timber-framed with clapboard cladding under black pantiled roof. PLAN Three-bay with an extra pair of small bays corresponding to the hips, northern bay forming a stable. Later lean-tos to rear (NE) EXTERIOR Central cart entrance to road with opposing smaller doorway. Northern, stable end on higher (c. 1 m.) brick plinth, with wide doorway to road, but very shallow plinth on which the wooden sill rests elsewhere. Some cement rendering to lower walls. INTERIOR Substantial mortised arch braces to two principal tie beams, from jowled corner posts to wall plates and gable end ties from four principal posts to the wall plates. Northernmost bay has been divided off for stabling. The partition rests on a low brick wall and stable is at a higher level with brick floor. There is a good threshing floor between the doors made of bricks laid on edge. ROOF Single set of staggered butt purlins with straight windbracing. Mortised collars to principal trusses and to the principal rafters defining the hipped ends. The later have tiny collars close to the ridge to carry the hip ridges. Ridge pieces of a plain board to central bay but of triangular section to the lateral bays. Two bladed scarf joints to southern wall plate. HISTORY The building has been very little altered since it was built. It is likely that the stable was part of the original design as this would be typical of timber-framed buildings in Suffolk (just across the river). The lean-tos along the back would have provided shelter for carts or animals and were put up at a later date, possibly when milking cows were more important and the dairy was added to the house in the C19. This is a fine, unaltered, example of a timber-framed barn with integral stable exhibiting some unusual features dating from about 1700 and so contemporary with the house (q.v.). It, like the house, is of exceptional quality for its size and date, with abundant bracing and accurately built half hips which are rare in Norfolk. The low-level sills and the treatment of the ridge pieces are also of interest. The roof construction is so similar to that of the house as to suggest that they were built at the same time. Together they form a very good and unusual farmstead group.

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Legacy System number:: 491933
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.