Granary formerly to Clemsfold Farm

Clemsfold Farm, Guildford Road, Clemsfold, Horsham, RH12 3PW

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Overview

Granary, built in around the early to mid-C19, extended in the early C20. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1462900
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-2019
List Entry Name:: Granary formerly to Clemsfold Farm
Statutory Address:: Clemsfold Farm, Guildford Road, Clemsfold, Horsham, RH12 3PW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1462900
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-2019
List Entry Name:: Granary formerly to Clemsfold Farm
Location Description:
Statutory Address 1:: Clemsfold Farm, Guildford Road, Clemsfold, Horsham, RH12 3PW

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:: Clemsfold Farm, Guildford Road, Clemsfold, Horsham, RH12 3PW

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

County:: West Sussex
District:: Horsham (District Authority)
Parish:: Slinfold
National Grid Reference:: TQ1293333405

Summary

Granary, built in around the early to mid-C19, extended in the early C20.

Reasons for Designation

Granary formerly to Clemsfold Farm is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* as a good example of a granary which demonstrates regional building traditions including its local rubble-stone walling and timber-frame upper level;

* it retains a good amount of external and internal historic fabric, and the original form of the granary remains legible despite the later extension.

Group value:

* with Barn formerly to Clemsfold Farm (Grade II).

History

The Clemsfold Farm complex appears on the Slinfold Tithe Map (1845), marked as Clemsfold with an L-shaped house to the south, a loose arrangement of agricultural buildings and outbuildings to the north and series of ponds to the east. The agricultural buildings depicted include the barn, with a long south-west wing, and the granary with a rectangular footprint. By the First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1:2500; 1876) the barn had been extended with the addition of an aisle along the south elevation. By the Third Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1:2500; 1912) the barn had lost its south-west wing, and the southern C19 aisle was modified to have two short wings to the east and west. A small lean-to has also been added to the barn’s north elevation. The granary is also shown with an extension to the north. Some smaller buildings in the farmyard had been demolished, and others had been added. By the mid-C20, the farmhouse had become known as Clemsfold House. Also by this time an L-shaped range had been added to the north side of the main barn and attached at its north-east corner. A large Dutch barn had also been built in a field to the west of the main farmyard. In the late C20, Clemsfold House was converted into a care home and heavily extended to the south. It was at around this time the house and main agricultural buildings came into separate ownership. The general arrangement of the farmyard buildings was little altered in the late C20. In the early C21, the mid-C20 L-shaped farmyard range was demolished.

The granary dates to around the early to mid-C19 and was in place by 1845. It was built on the north side of the farmyard. It was extended in the early C20 with addition of a lean-to on its north side. Two pairs of double doors were inserted into the west end of the undercroft at an unknown date.

Details

Granary, built in around the early to mid-C19, extended in the early C20.

MATERIALS: the undercroft is constructed of stone and brick on two sides and timber on the other sides. The granary is timber frame with weatherboard cladding. The early-C20 extension is constructed in brick.

PLAN: it has a rectangular footprint on an east-west axis with an addition to the north.

EXTERIOR: the building stands on an undercroft which has stone walls with brick quoins to the north and south elevations. The undercroft’s east elevation is clad in weatherboarding and two large pairs of doors have been inserted into the west elevation. The upper part of the granary is a weatherboard-clad timber-frame. The main entrance is in the east-gable end and accessed by a ladder (some of its rungs have been lost); there is also a small vent opening at the apex. There is an opening at the apex of the east gable end which has been boarded up. To the north is an early-C20 brick lean-to.

INTERIOR: the undercroft contains two timber posts supporting the floor above and a later timber partition which subdivides the space. It was not possible to access the upper part of the granary; however, early C21 images show that it has two levels. The lower level contains two grain bins with a central walkway and above is a further grain bin. The bins appear to have been subject to later modifications including the reinforcement of supporting posts in the lower-level bins, and the addition of later floorboards to the upper-level bin. The granary is topped by a coupled roof; at least one of the rafters has been replaced. The former north side of the granary is built into a bank and is visible within the early-C20 extension, including a boarded-up central opening into the undercroft; some of the weatherboards on original north wall have been replaced.

Sources

Other
Drummond Ecology, Clemsfold Farm, 2018
First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1:2500; 1876)
Slinfold Tithe Map (1845)
Third Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1:2500; 1912)

Legal

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