FIELD BARN AT NGR SE 1056990812

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Overview

Field barn, built or adapted as an eye-catcher or a functional folly, late C18 or early C19. Local rubble stone laid to courses with some quoins set on edge. Stone slate roof laid to diminishing courses to the stone ridge. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392708
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-2008
List Entry Name:: FIELD BARN AT NGR SE 1056990812
Statutory Address:: FIELD BARN AT NGR SE 1056990812

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392708
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-2008
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-May-2010
List Entry Name:: FIELD BARN AT NGR SE 1056990812
Statutory Address 1:: FIELD BARN AT NGR SE 1056990812

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:: FIELD BARN AT NGR SE 1056990812

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Leyburn
National Grid Reference:: SE 10569 90812

Details

LEYBURN

1024/0/10003 LEYBURN SHAWL 05-AUG-08 Field Barn at NGR SE 1056990812 (Formerly listed as: RISEBER LANE LEYBURN SHAWL OLD CHAPEL BARN)

II Field barn, built or adapted as an eye-catcher or a functional folly, late C18 or early C19. Local rubble stone laid to courses with some quoins set on edge. Stone slate roof laid to diminishing courses to the stone ridge.

EXTERIOR Crow-stepped gables with an additional merlon on each step to give a battlemented wall effect, these crow steps being a later addition. The north gable has a centrally placed round-arched recess to give the appearance of a blocked window (there is no evidence of an opening internally). The south gable has a similar round arched recess, the lower part forming a real window which at the time of the inspection retained an unglazed timber window frame with light glazing bars. To the right of this window there is a doorway. The east wall has two similar round-arched recesses that are not carried fully through the wall thickness. The lower part of the right-hand recess does form a square-headed window, but the left-hand recess appears as a fully blocked window externally and is not visible at all internally. At the northern, right-hand end of the wall there is another doorway. The west wall is blank.

INTERIOR The field barn is divided into two internally by a central cross wall with a doorway both at ground and attic levels. The northern room is cobbled and was designed as a small cow byre. Socket holes indicate that it once had an attic floor. There is no evidence of an attic floor in the southern room which is thought to have been designed for hay storage. The roof structure is not original although it is traditionally constructed with pegged joints and includes carpenter's marks.

HISTORY Although it is not known for certain when the barn was constructed or when it was turned into an eye catcher, it is likely to be late C18 or early C19 in date when the construction of such buildings was fashionable, as demonstrated by the many other examples surviving in Richmondshire. It is likely that there is some historical relationship between the barn and the folly which lies 425m to the east and is listed grade II as the Gothick folly to the north of Thornborough Hall. This folly was built in circa 1790 and it is likely that the field barn became an eye-catcher at around the same time, either as part of a wider scheme for Thornborough Hall or as part of a revival scheme by a neighbour. Because the barn's west wall is blank, it was clearly designed to be viewed from the east. It is also not known who commissioned the construction of the barn. An estate plan of 1778 shows that the area of land occupied by the barn (the area being known as Riseber), was then in the ownership of the Duke of Bolton. Unfortunately this plan does not depict any field barns or other similar small buildings. A later plan of 1822 does show small buildings and clearly depicts Old Chapel Barn. On this plan it is depicted shaded denoting that it was not owned by the Bolton Estate but was the freehold of someone else.

SOURCES "A plan of lands in the township of Leyburn and Harmby belonging to his Grace the Duke of Bolton" 1778 (North Yorkshire Record Office) "Plan of the Township of Leyburn in the North Riding of the County of York belonging to Lord Bolton" 1822 (North Yorkshire Record Office)

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The Field Barn at NGR SE 1056990812 is designated at grade II for the following principal reasons:

* It is a good, well preserved example of a late C18 or early C19 eye-catcher or functional folly * It has a probable historical relationship with the grade II listed Gothick folly to the north of Thornborough Hall

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Legacy System number:: 504610
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.