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Summary

Extant Medieval tithe barn. Grade I.

Protected Status

• Listed Building (I) 63970: CARGOLL FARM BARN

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SW 85 NW 7
• National Record of the Historic Environment to Historic Environment Records data transfer
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 428999
• OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SW85NW 7
• Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 25049.22
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)
• SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SW85NW 8.3

Monument Type(s):

• BARN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD) + Sci.Date

Full description

An extant Medieval tithe barn, probably dating to the late C13 or early C14. The building is depicted on the Tithe (1), and 1st and 2nd ed OS maps (2, 3). The OS maps mark the barn as the site of a prison. The barn is mentioned by Tonkin in the early C18, who describes how Cargoll must once have been a ‘considerable place’ but that all that now remained of this was a large prison and the barn, which was of the same size (4). The barn was not mentioned in by Gilbert in 1820, who records only the prison (5). It is likely that he was conflating the two buildings, and that the prison had been demolished.

Henderson, writing in the early C20, recorded that only the barn was extant, described as a huge structure of local slate stone, buttressed on the exterior and with a wagon roof (6). Cresswell Payne records that the barn was itself used as a prison for French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars (7). He recorded that the barn had been converted into a two-storey building through the insertion of a wooden floor, with granary above and byre below. He also recorded that it had been so altered by the addition of cattle houses that it was no longer imposing.

In 1970, the OS surveyor found that the barn was generally in a good state of preservation although a number of modern windows had been added. The roof timbers were still intact, but the thatch had been replaced by galvanised sheeting (8).

The building is listed and described as being C14, and constructed of killas rubble with ashlar dressings. The building consists of seven to eight bays and buttressed on the east side and south end, a ramp had been added providing an entrance to the upper floor on the west side. As noted above, the building is now subdivided, and a corrugated asbestos roof has replaced the original (9).

In 2019 the timbers of the roof were sampled for dendrochronology, although the sequence cannot as yet be dated. Based on its similarity to medieval roof timbers of known date the roof is likely to date to the late C13 or early C14 (10).

<1> Tithe Award, 1840s, Newlyn East (Bibliographic reference). SCO4828.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1880s, 1st Edition 6 Inch Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4049.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1900s, 2nd Edition 6 Inch Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4051.

<4> Polsue, J (Editor), 1867-72, Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall, Vol. 3, 414 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4139.

<5> Gilbert, CS, 1820, An Historical and Topographical Survey of the County of Cornwall, 677 (Bibliographic reference). SCO3360.

<6> Henderson, C, 1914, Notebooks of Parochial Antiquities, No. 1, 442 (Unpublished document). SCO3503.

<7> Cresswell-Payne, HM, nd, The Story of Newlyn East (Unpublished document). SCO3198.

<8> Field Investigator's Comments, OS/Fletcher, MJ. 1970 (Survey). SCO29739.

<9> Historic England, National Heritage List Entry (Website). SCO29994.

<10> Bridge, MC, 2019, The dendrochronological investigation of timbers from Cargoll Barn, St Newlyn East, Cornwall (Report). SCO28714.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• ECO5278 - The dendrochronological investigation of timbers from Cargoll Barn, St Newlyn East, Cornwall (Ref: 2018/50)

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