See important guidance on the use of this record.

If you have any comments or new information about this record, please email us.

Summary

Stone-built cart shed.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1106931: FARMBUILDNGS FORMING THE WEST AND SOUTH RANGES OF THE FARMYARD TO THE EAST OF LOXBEARE BARTON

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CART SHED (XIX to XX - 1801 AD to 2000 AD (Between))

Full description

Wakeham, C. S., 2007, Archaeological Building Survey and Watching Brief at Loxbeare Barton, Loxbeare, Devon, 4; 5.2; Plates 1, 2, 5 (Report - Watching Brief). SDV356370.

The cart shed was a small lean-to structure adjoining the northern end of the west elevation to the stable, measuring 6.4m x 2.5m internally, and built between 1843 and 1888. It was composed of volcanic and limestone rubble with a dressed stone exterior, built onto an existing northern wall described above. The building was entered via a wide arched doorway in the north and had a monopitch roof sloping down to the west.
In the northern elevation, the quoins of the eastern jamb of the cart shed entrance were predominantly purplish grey and appeared to be original. Those on the western side were more reddish brown in colour and snecked, suggesting that they are later, and probably contemporary with the building of the cart shed, and a widening of the entrance. The entrance was c. 2.5m wide and 2.5m high. It was fitted with a wooden doorframe and two modern inward opening, ledged and battened doors.
The western wall was finished in snecked dressed stone with quoins on the corners. It contained a single timber-framed window, with a rendered sill at the centre of the elevation.
The southern end elevation was of snecked dressed stone, contemporary with that of the western wall, and it abutted the rear wall of the stable.
The interior stonework was of angular rubble, coursed in the western wall and more random to the south. All walls were whitewashed up to the base of the joist holes in the cob along the western wall of the stable. This might suggest that the whitewash was contemporary with a plastered ceiling on the underside of the joists. The floor of the cart shed was not exposed.
The slate monopitch roof comprised two diagonal principal rafters supporting two purlins and the common rafters. The upper purlin rested on the principal rafters, whilst the lower sat within the purlins. The principals had a less weathered appearance than the rest of the roof structure, and their alignment in relation to the rest of the roof suggests they are a later addition, perhaps added following the removal of the ceiling and/or loft floor.
Map object based on this source.

Ordnance Survey, 2015, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV357601.

Map object based on this source.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6563 - Building Survey and Watching Brief at Loxbeare Barton (Ref: 07.81)

Search results generated by the HBSMR Gateway from exeGesIS SDM Ltd.