Barn, Upton St. Leonards

Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 4 Jul 2008

This magnificent barn is at Manor Farm, on Portway. The following is taken from the description on http://www.stroud.gov.uk/info/listed_buildings/upton_stleonards.pdf : "Large barn with attached stable at east end. C15, possibly earlier; late C17 stable. Very large coursed and squared limestone; timber framing; coursed rubble to stable; stone slate roof (clay pantile to north slope). Off-centre south porch to 6- bay barn; stable with loft. South side: stone base walls with chamfered plinth and buttresses; gabled porch with plank barn doors and outshut to right; weatherboarded porch gable and upper part of barn walls; low opening in wall to left of porch with plank doors; plain stone side wall to stable. East end: barn end is half-hipped with small gablet, gabled stable with 2 stable doors having timber lintels; central loft door over with timber lintels; 3 rows of a pigeon holes in gable apex. North side: weatherboarded above buttressed stone base walls as to south; central porch with raised sprocketted roof; attached shelter sheds are not of special interest. West end: weatherboarded half-hipped gable end with gablet above buttressed stone base wall. Interior has 7 raised cruck trusses with very high cambered collars and arched bracing; 2 rows of purlins and ogee-curved wind bracing: close studded end walls; small framing along sides. Internal span of approximately 8.2m across feet of crucks. Rafters and framing are original: C15 work is largely intact with little evidence of repair or replacement. C19 iron tie-rods sag and appear unnecessary. A lofty and elegant structure. Important barn and one of the best in the county. Possibly built as Tithe Barn for Gloucester Abbey. (N.W. Alcock, Cruck Construction: An Introduction and Catalogue, Q 1981)."

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