Fastbridge Farm Barn
Fastbridge Farm, Guildford Road, Alfold, Cranleigh, GU6 8HE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1453777
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Fastbridge Farm Barn
- Statutory Address:
- Fastbridge Farm, Guildford Road, Alfold, Cranleigh, GU6 8HE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1453777
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Fastbridge Farm Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- Fastbridge Farm, Guildford Road, Alfold, Cranleigh, GU6 8HE
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:
- Fastbridge Farm, Guildford Road, Alfold, Cranleigh, GU6 8HE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alfold
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ0402736805
Summary
A former threshing barn, probably erected in the C18 or early C19 but reusing some earlier timbers.
Reasons for Designation
Fastbridge Farm Barn, a timber-framed former threshing barn, erected in the C18 or early-to mid-C19, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* as an impressive five bay barn with gabled cart entrance and intact timber-framing to both wall frame and roof assembly;
* for the interesting roof structure including both staggered and butt purlins with angled queen struts and the variation between curved and straight tension braces in the wall frame.
Group value:
* with Fastbridge Farmhouse, the former farmhouse to the farmstead, listed at Grade II in 1987.
History
Fastbridge Farm Barn was originally part of a farm complex of which the farmhouse to its south-east, Fastbridge Farmhouse, is in part a timber-framed house dating from the C16 and is listed at Grade II.
Originally it was a threshing barn but at a later date probably housed animals as the interior brick plinth was protected by a cement coating and an iron feeding basket is attached to the external wall on the east side. It is possible that the barn was taken apart and re-constructed on a higher plinth in the C19.
The barn appears on the 1871 25'' Ordnance Survey map to its current extent together with the projecting cart entrance on the north-east side. On this map the attached single-storey brick cattle shelter to the north west is also shown and an open-fronted structure is shown attached to the south part of the south-west side. No change is shown on the 1897 Second Edition. On the 1916 Third Edition 25'' sheet two further open-fronted additions are shown attached to the south-west side of the barn in the farm yard. These additions in the farm yard attached on the south-west side no longer exist but there is now additionally a C20 addition on the north side of the north-east side. The barn is no longer in farming use and Fastbridge Farmhouse is no longer a farmhouse.
Details
A former threshing barn, probably erected in the C18 or early C19 but reusing some earlier timbers. The C20 single storey additions on the north-east side are not included in the listing.
MATERIALS: oak timber-framing on a deep brick plinth, clad in weatherboarding with a plain-tiled gabled roof.
PLAN: a rectangular barn of five bays aligned north-west to south-east with a central cart entrance and a projecting cart porch on the north-east side.
EXTERIOR: the south-west side facing the road is weather-boarded. The north-east side has a central gabled and weather-boarded timber-framed cart entrance. There is some old weatherboarding concealed under C20 additions. The north-west and south-east ends are weather-boarded and gable ended.
INTERIOR: the roof is of butt-purlin type with queen struts, with alternate in line and staggered purlins, and rafters with an inserted ridge-piece. The wall-frame is set on a deep brick plinth and has a mid rail and mainly diagonal tension braces to the corners and adjoining the cart entrance, but there are also some curved braces similar to the adjoining farm house. There is some later brick infill at the south-east gable end. The part below mid-rail on the north-west end has some breeze-block infill, a later wooden hatch has been inserted into the upper part of the wall-frame and a later entrance, cutting through the plinth but now blocked, is in the lower part of the wall-frame.
SUBSIDIARY BUILDING: attached at the north-west end is an early-to mid-C19 single-storey cattle shed in red brick in Sussex bond with a plain-tiled hipped roof, latterly in use as a milking parlour.
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
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