Threshing Barn at Westrop Farm
THRESHING BARN AT WESTROP FARM, THE RIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393731
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Threshing Barn at Westrop Farm
- Statutory Address:
- THRESHING BARN AT WESTROP FARM, THE RIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393731
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Threshing Barn at Westrop Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- THRESHING BARN AT WESTROP FARM, THE RIDGE
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:
- THRESHING BARN AT WESTROP FARM, THE RIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cold Ash
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 51681 70203
Reasons for Designation
The threshing barn, Westrop Farm is recommended for designation at Grade II the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: good example of late, vernacular construction of a barn in which the plan and function is clearly demonstrated in the single aisle, opposing entrances and pigeon loft; * Historic interest: as an element of a loosely planned farmyard which is typical of the later C18 and early C19
Details
COLD ASH
14/0/10025 THE RIDGE 30-MAR-10 Threshing Barn at Westrop Farm
II Barn, C18.
MATERIALS: Timber-framed and weatherboarded on a brick plinth. The base of the frame is replaced or underpinned in C19 red brick and engineering brick brick. Internally, softer red brick spur walls, again mostly C19, support the aisle posts. Some spur walls are of softer and presumably earlier red brick. Pegtile roofs.
PLAN: The barn is aligned north-south, enclosing the western side of the farmyard. It is of three large bays flanked at each end by a narrower bay, with central opposing entrances, taller on the western side. It has a single aisle on the eastern flank, a hipped tile roof with a deep catslide roof at the northern end and a protruding gabled porch over the western entrance, containing a pigeon loft.
EXTERIOR: Clad in horizontal weatherboarding with some patching and with a small inserted entrance in the south gable plinth wall. The gable over the western entrance is supported on slender brackets. Attached to the western side are C20 metal-framed open-sided barns which are not of special interest.
INTERIOR: The roof is of two tiers of staggered purlins; tie beams have slightly curved braces; collars are supported on slender struts.
SOURCES: Oxford Archaeology Ltd, Westrop Farm, Cold Ash, West Berkshire (March 2010) Tubb, R, B, Cold Ash & Ashmore Green, Road by Road (2004), 26-8, 49, 139 Roque's Map of Berkshire, 1761 Bucklebury Tithe Map, Berkshire Record Office, T/M145/1-22; D/D1 28/1B 1842 Bucklebury Tithe Award, Berkshire Record Office, D/D1 28/1A OS Map 1:2500, OS XXXV :11, 1870 -1880
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The threshing barn, Westrop Farm is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: good example of late, vernacular construction of a barn in which the plan and function is clearly demonstrated in the single aisle, opposing entrances and pigeon loft; * Historic interest: as an element of a loosely-planned farmyard which is typical of the later C18 and early C19.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 508297
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tubb, R B, Cold Ash and Ashmore Green, Road by Road, (2004), 26-28,49
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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