Barn at Upper Rhydimoor, Eardisland

Upper Rhydimoor House, Monkland, Leominster, Leominster, HR6 9DH

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Overview

A timber-framed barn of late-C17 or early-C18 date. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1411747
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-2014
List Entry Name:: Barn at Upper Rhydimoor, Eardisland
Statutory Address:: Upper Rhydimoor House, Monkland, Leominster, Leominster, HR6 9DH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1411747
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-2014
List Entry Name:: Barn at Upper Rhydimoor, Eardisland
Statutory Address 1:: Upper Rhydimoor House, Monkland, Leominster, Leominster, HR6 9DH

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Upper Rhydimoor House, Monkland, Leominster, Leominster, HR6 9DH

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Eardisland
National Grid Reference:: SO4294557718

Summary

A timber-framed barn of late-C17 or early-C18 date.

Reasons for Designation

The late C17 or early C18 barn at Upper Rhydimoor, Eardisland, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Intactness: with the exception of relatively minor alterations and losses which can be expected of a functioning farm building of this date, all of the principal structural components of this timber-framed barn remain in situ, and the retention of relatively fragile infill panels is noteworthy; * Architectural: the substantial frame, with jowled corner posts and lattice gable ends seems to have been designed to be a functional building with visual interest.

History

The barn appears to be late-C17 or early-C18 in date with additions and alterations of the C19 and C20/C21.

Details

A timber-framed barn of late-C17 or early-C18 date with C19, C20 and C21 additions and alterations.

MATERIALS: small-framed timber framing, standing on a rubble stone plinth, with some rendered panels of thermal infill to the lower storey and some much older, potentially original, stave-and-withie infill to the upper body. The clapboard covering which now covers much of the structure appears to date from the C20, and the present corrugated metal roof, probably replaces an original, thatched roof which was in turn replaced with tiles. PLAN: the rectangular barn is aligned east-west with opposed double doors to the centre of its flanks. The central threshing floor is flanked by storage bays which have dwarf walls supporting open frames with angled struts that connect to the side walls.

EXTERIOR: panels of small framing show to the lower flank walls and to the lower wall of the western gable end, but the upper body and eastern gable end are covered with waney-edged clapboarding. There are two casements to the upper wall of the east end, and a single-light window to the ground floor. The other walls are blind. The roof is entirely covered with corrugated metal of C20 date.

INTERIOR: the three-bay interior has trusses which rest on jowled wall posts with ties, V-struts and angled braces. Angled struts connect from the wall posts to the lower sides of the ties. There are two ranks of staggered purlins and a ridge beam. Wind braces connect from the wall plate to the lower rank of purlins. Almost all of the original common rafters are in situ. The horizontal beams in the walls have stick holes to their undersides and channels to secure the wattle panels to their top edges. The northern gable end has a diagonal lattice of crossed timbers. Mortice holes at the west end show that this end was probably originally the same, although it now has a central post connecting to a collar and lateral angled braces, which may be original. The flank walls have angled passing braces. The winnowing floor of stone slabs remains in situ in the central bay. A hardboard loft floor, supported by pine rafters, runs across the whole of the barn and was inserted in the late C20 or early C21.

Sources

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Herefordshire Historic Farmsteads Characterisation Project

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.