Bottom Farm
#4055 36/365 2021
Entry Name: Farm Buildings at Bottom Farm
Listing Date: 26 June 1986
Grade: II
Farm buildings, N range now in domestic use.
C16 barn in W range incorporating an older N bay, C18 traphouse with loft at S end and 2-bay C19 open shed at N end.
C19 elevated granary at E end of N range which has C17/C18 parts linked and adapted to domestic use in 1980s. Timber frames on brick sills, dark weatherboarded with
steep old red tile roofs.
A picturesque L-shaped group of farm buildings to W of house.
The 4-bay barn faces W with a gabled projecting porch in the 2nd bay from S and a large winnowing door opposite on E and rear outshuts and stables under catslide roofs. Jowled posts with mid-height rails in-line and unjowled wallposts at mid-bay. Heavy straight braces to tie beams and to wallplates. 2 purlins to each slope of clasped purlin roof, the upper clasped by a collar and the lower by quadrant-curved inclined queen-posts.
Older N bay had a single-purlin with wind braces but was altered to 2 butt-purlins. Straight wind braces to lower purlins. Squint-butted scarf joint in wall plate.
Old elm boards on rear of barn survive protected by outshuts.
Square single-storey C19 granary raised high on 2 parallel brick walls has a pyramidial roof, small window in middle of each side and door central at E reached by ladder. Interior has a central N-S tie-beam with inclined queen-posts to purlin roof with angle rafters bearing on ties across the corners with pegged tenons. Long diagonal braces in walls.
Bottom Farm
#4055 36/365 2021
Entry Name: Farm Buildings at Bottom Farm
Listing Date: 26 June 1986
Grade: II
Farm buildings, N range now in domestic use.
C16 barn in W range incorporating an older N bay, C18 traphouse with loft at S end and 2-bay C19 open shed at N end.
C19 elevated granary at E end of N range which has C17/C18 parts linked and adapted to domestic use in 1980s. Timber frames on brick sills, dark weatherboarded with
steep old red tile roofs.
A picturesque L-shaped group of farm buildings to W of house.
The 4-bay barn faces W with a gabled projecting porch in the 2nd bay from S and a large winnowing door opposite on E and rear outshuts and stables under catslide roofs. Jowled posts with mid-height rails in-line and unjowled wallposts at mid-bay. Heavy straight braces to tie beams and to wallplates. 2 purlins to each slope of clasped purlin roof, the upper clasped by a collar and the lower by quadrant-curved inclined queen-posts.
Older N bay had a single-purlin with wind braces but was altered to 2 butt-purlins. Straight wind braces to lower purlins. Squint-butted scarf joint in wall plate.
Old elm boards on rear of barn survive protected by outshuts.
Square single-storey C19 granary raised high on 2 parallel brick walls has a pyramidial roof, small window in middle of each side and door central at E reached by ladder. Interior has a central N-S tie-beam with inclined queen-posts to purlin roof with angle rafters bearing on ties across the corners with pegged tenons. Long diagonal braces in walls.