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HER Number: | MDV35863 |
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Name: | Threshing Barn and Horse Engine House at Lower Lana, Tetcott |
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Summary
Threshing barn with horse engine house and adjoining shippon.
Location
Grid Reference: | SX 342 962 |
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Map Sheet: | SX39NW |
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Admin Area | Devon |
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Civil Parish | Tetcott |
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District | Torridge |
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Ecclesiastical Parish | TETCOTT |
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Protected Status
Other References/Statuses
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX39NW/514/1
- Old Listed Building Ref (II): 435115
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- THRESHING BARN (XIX - 1857 AD to 1857 AD (Between))
Full description
Department of Environment, 1986, Tetcott, 34 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV9663.
Farmbuilding about 50 metres south east of Lower Lana farmhouse.
Threshing barn with horse engine house and adjoining shippon. Probably 1857 and contemporary with Lower Lana Farmhouse, built for the Tetcott Estate. Garden wall bond brick with slate roofs hipped at ends, stone rubble horse engine house with corrugated asbestos roof.
The barn is built against the slope of the land: The side with the higher ground level has 2 wide doorways to the threshing loft with slate canopies on either side of the engine house which has a low-pitched gable-ended roof. On the lower level the building is open-fronted with 4 large entrances to the left and a smaller entrance to the right and 2 loft loading doors. A shippon adjoins the threshing barn at the front left forming an L plan.
Interior The threshing loft has scissor brace 19th century trusses; the beam for the horse engine exists in the horse engine house. Other details: LBS number 435115.
Sources / Further Reading
SDV9663 | List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest: Department of Environment. 1986. Tetcott. Historic Houses Register. A4 Spiral Bound. 34. |
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Associated Monuments: none recorded
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
Date Last Edited: | Oct 7 2009 3:39PM |
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