Barn at Duckings
BARN AT DUCKINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391339
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Duckings
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AT DUCKINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391339
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Duckings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AT DUCKINGS
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 DUCKINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Wealden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Withyham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 49903 35759
Details
WITHYHAM
995/0/10092 Barn at Duckings
GV II Barn. Late C16, reusing earlier timbers, with eastern bay added in early C18 and eastern gable wall replaced in the early C19. EXTERIOR: Timberframed barn of five bays on a sandstone plinth with tiled roof, hipped to the east and gabled to the west. The central cart entrance to the north has full-height cart doors, C20 but retaining earlier pintle hinges. INTERIOR: The original building phase had four bays, extended to the east by one bay in the early C18. The original late C16 structure comprised a waggon bay flanked by a storage bay to the east and two storage bays to the west. As there is no evidence for infill at the current west gable and a mortice above the plate level it appears the building originally extended to the west as a lean-to. The barn incorporates reused timbers including mediaeval rafters, heavy principal posts with redundant brace mortices, girding beams, wall plates and roof collars, all reused. The wall frame has a midrail and the principal posts have swelling and splay shape jowls and some curved braces. The roof has a hip at the east end and is of side purlin construction with queenposts and the roof has curved windbraces to two bays in the rear slope and a high set collar beam to the hipped end. Rope stains suggest that the roof wasw originally thatched. In the early C18 the barn was extended to the east by the addition of a storage bay with small swelling jowls to the principal posts. The roof rafters to this bay are more closely spaced and the hipped terminal does not have a hish set collar at the apex. The curved braces to this bay are probably reused. The east end gable wall appears to date from the early C19. HISTORY: Shown on a map of 1597. Timberframed barn of five bays on sandstone plinth dating from the late C16 with reused mediaval timbers, the eastern bay an addition of early C18 date and early C19 gable end grouping with other structures from the original farmstead.
[Alan Dickinson "Archaeological Interpretative Survey of the barn at Duckings Farm Withyham East Sussex" February 2004.]
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490799
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dickinson, A, Archaeological Interpretative Survey of the Barn at Duckings Farm Withham East Sussex, (2004)
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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