BARN NORTH EAST OF HEATHLANDS FARMHOUSE

BARN NORTH EAST OF HEATHLANDS FARMHOUSE, WARBURTON LANE

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Overview

Cruck barn, C15-C16 with C18, C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392565
Date first listed:: 22-Apr-2008
List Entry Name:: BARN NORTH EAST OF HEATHLANDS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BARN NORTH EAST OF HEATHLANDS FARMHOUSE, WARBURTON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392565
Date first listed:: 22-Apr-2008
List Entry Name:: BARN NORTH EAST OF HEATHLANDS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BARN NORTH EAST OF HEATHLANDS FARMHOUSE, WARBURTON LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BARN NORTH EAST OF HEATHLANDS FARMHOUSE, WARBURTON LANE

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

District:: Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Warburton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 71194 90153

Reasons for Designation

* It incorporates significant late medieval elements in the form of two complete cruck trusses, with pegged collars, tie beams and wind braces, and other timbers * It represents a rare survival of a multifunctional cowhouse and hayloft in the north Cheshire plain * It demonstrates a development of function throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth century, manifested in its building materials and layout * It forms an important element of the small farmstead, together with the Grade II listed farmhouse close by

Details

WARBURTON

458/0/10062 WARBURTON LANE 22-APR-08 Barn north east of Heathlands Farmhouse

GV II

Cruck barn, C15-C16 with C18, C19 and C20 alterations and additions. MATERIALS: a variety of red brick, mostly C18, with slate roof (partly removed). Two complete crucks and one original purlin survive. PLAN: Three bays, with crucks between the inner bays, and an upper floor for hay. At the north end on the east side is a small outshut with a catslide roof from the main roof, and at the southern end is a larger outshut incorporating a raised roof in the main building. Single storey pigsties are attached to the southern end. EXTERIOR: west elevation has a door to the left and another towards the right end, with three scattered windows between and another further to the right of the door. There is evidence of an altered opening to the centre, with a brick relieving arch extending beyond the central window. To the right of the right hand door is a break in the brickwork and the remains of a stone sill at the base. Attached to the right hand (south) gable is a lower section containing two pig sties. The gable end has evidence of the raising of the roof line to the right (rear). The left (north) gable has a blocked first floor window and a bricked up entrance with arched lintel. Purlins, 2 to the left and 1 to the right, extend beyond the wall plate. The rear (east) elevation has a single storey catslide outshut to the right, a central door and an extended outshut to the left with a raised catslide roof line. This has a door and first floor window facing inwards. INTERIOR: the main barn has three rooms to the ground floor, with the northern cruck incorporated into one of the dividing walls and the southern cruck close to the other, plus the two outshuts and an open upper floor. There are two intact cruck trusses with pegged tie beams, wind bracing and collars, and an original purlin on the west side. The east side purlin was reused in the pig sties in the 1880s-90s. Common rafters and other roof timbers were replaced in the C20. The original outer east wall to the south end has blocked arched openings. The south outshut has the remains of cattle stalls. HISTORY: The crucks are likely, from comparitive analysis, to date between 1450 and 1600. The brick walls are probably C18 in the main, possible from the same time as the late C18 farmhouse alongside, and it is likely that supporting end crucks were removed when they were constructed. The stone plinth is likely to predate the brick walls. The tithe map of 1834 shows the barn and the first edition OS marks it as part of Mossend Farm, in largely its present form. There were widespread improvements to the Egerton-Warburton estate of which this farmstead was part in the 1880s and 1890s, and it is likely that the outshuts, along with the raised roof and the construction of the pig sties took place at this period. The slate roof also dates to this period and was probably originally thatched. The barn was reroofed in the C20, using original slates.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The barn at Heathlands is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It incorporates significant late medieval elements in the form of two complete cruck trusses, with pegged collars, tie beams and wind braces, and other timbers * It represents a rare survival of a multifunctional cowhouse and hayloft in the north Cheshire plain * It demonstrates a development of function throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth century, manifested in its building materials and layout * It forms an important element of the small farmstead, together with the Grade II listed farmhouse close by

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 504356
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.