Former threshing barn at Crookhorn Farm
Crookhorn Farm, Crookhorn Lane, Southwater, Horsham, Horsham, RH13 9DA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1479286
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-2022
- List Entry Name:
- Former threshing barn at Crookhorn Farm
- Statutory Address:
- Crookhorn Farm, Crookhorn Lane, Southwater, Horsham, Horsham, RH13 9DA
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1479286
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-2022
- List Entry Name:
- Former threshing barn at Crookhorn Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- Crookhorn Farm, Crookhorn Lane, Southwater, Horsham, Horsham, RH13 9DA
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:
- Crookhorn Farm, Crookhorn Lane, Southwater, Horsham, Horsham, RH13 9DA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Horsham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shipley
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ1394825882
Summary
Threshing barn, dating to around the mid-C17 to early C18.
Reasons for Designation
The former threshing barn at Crookhorn Farm, Shipley, Horsham is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* it retains a significant proportion of its original timber frame, including elements of the queen-post roof, principal trusses and walling.
Group value:
* it forms a good group with the associated farmhouse to the west (Grade II; NHLE entry 1476692).
History
Crookhorn Farm is a historic farmstead located within the historic parish of Shipley. The farmhouse is of C15 origins. The oldest building within the farmyard, located to the north-west of the farmhouse, is the threshing barn with large doors on either side. The timber-frame dates from around the mid-C17 to early C18. Some of the timbers have been replaced, particularly in the gable ends. The floor has been covered in concrete in the C20. The roof has been reclad in modern corrugated metal sheeting.
A mid-C18 map of the farm (1751), provides elevational views of the farmstead, including the farmhouse on one side of a pond, and a farmyard to the north-east with a threshing barn on the east side and further buildings on the north-west and south sides of the yard. An early-C19 valuation of the estate (1811) includes a brief description of the house, a weatherboarded barn with stabling (most likely the threshing barn), cattle shed and pig house, dove house and horse stabling. On the Parish of Shipley Tithe Map (1848), the farmyard is depicted with the threshing barn along the east side, with an attached cross wing at its south end, and a further building in the north-west corner of the farmyard. The 1876 Ordnance Survey (OS) map (1:2500) shows a similar arrangement of buildings; with the exception of an additional structure added to the south of the building in the north-west corner of the farmyard. By the 1911 OS map (1:2500) a stable block had been added to the south end of the threshing barn. By the 1976 OS map (1:2500) the cross wing to the south-west of the threshing barn had been demolished, two parallel rows of open-fronted shelters had been built either side of the south end of the farmyard and a detached building had been built to the west of the threshing barn.
Details
Threshing barn, dating to around the mid-C17 to early C18.
MATERIAL: timber-framed structure with weatherboarding, and corrugated metal-clad hipped roof.
PLAN: rectangular footprint on a north to south alignment.
EXTERIOR: on the east and west elevations are central large double-door openings. There are also additional entrance doors and hatches around the building. The building is topped by a tipped corrugated-metal roof.
INTERIOR: the barn has five bays which are defined by pairs of posts with jowled and flush profiles at the top. Braces spring from the posts to support tie beams. Above are raked queen-post struts that support a pair of clasped purlins. Some of the rafters are relatively recent replacements, and the roof has been reinforced with later passing braces and additional purlins. The wall-frame retains studs, wall plates and mid rails. Some of the pegged timbers have been reinforced with iron brackets. Some of the timbers have been replaced and there is also evidence of reused timbers.
Sources
Books and journals
The Victoria History of the County of Sussex: Volume VI Part 2 , (1986), 105-111
Other
Parish of Shipley Tithe map (1849)
First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1:2500; 1876)
Third Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1:2500; 1911)
Post-war Series Ordnance Survey Map (1:2500, 1976)
Cowfold Ordnance Survey Drawing (1806-1807)
Add Mss 1832, Farm of Thomas Sergisons Esqr: call'd Priers Survey'd by Rd: Morly (1751) held in West Sussex Archive
Lytton Mss 11, 'The Particular and Valuation of the Sussex Estates the Property of Francis Scawen Blunt Esqr.'(1811) held in West Sussex Archive
SP 376 Sale Particulars: Horsham; Newbuildings Place (1890) held in West Sussex Archive
MWS9971, Crookhorn Farm Historic Farmstead, Shipley , West Sussex County Council Monument Full Report
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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