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| HER Number: | MDV37488 |
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| Name: | Bank Barn at Hole Farm, Witheridge |
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Summary
Stone built bank barn with cattle shelters on the ground floor and a former threshing floor above, with opposing central, double doorways. Adjoining the barn is a lower, two storey stable block and at the rear of the barn is a horse engine house.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SS 814 152 |
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| Map Sheet: | SS81NW |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Witheridge |
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| District | North Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | WITHERIDGE |
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Protected Status
Other References/Statuses
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SS81NW/37/1
- Old Listed Building Ref (II)
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- BANK BARN (Built, XIX - 1801 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))
Full description
Department of Environment, 1987, Witheridge, 59 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV338940.
Bank barn to west of Hole Farmhouse. Hay barn with threshing floor, integral stalls set below, engine house at the rear. Mid C19. Coursed rubble, slate roof to coped verges in 2 sections on front, engine house with a segmental slate roof at the rear.
Plan: bank barn, long rectangular hay barn on first floor inset into the side of a hill, large central threshing floor, (now removed) with large doorways opposite to each other. On the ground floor cattle shelters with openings on the downhill side; to right of front a 2-storeyed stable of lower height, single storeyed engine house at the rear of the left end.
Exterior: 2 storeys, front with 2 large full-height 2-stage buttresses, projecting pentice over, these flank a central door opening on the first floor, plank doors. Further secondary buttresses to each side. On the ground floor 4-segmental headed openings to the cattle shelters. Stable to right with a door opening. At the rear the polygonal engine house. Interior: with early C19 strutted king-post roof. Engine house to the rear with machinery removed
Child, P., 1988, Bank Barn, Hole Farm, Witheridge (Ground Photograph). SDV365419.
Photo showing the front of the barn.
Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.
Barn shown, with a horse engine house on the north side.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV338940 | List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest: Department of Environment. 1987. Witheridge. Historic Houses Register. Unknown. 59. |
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| SDV365227 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2023. Mastermap 2023. Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping. Digital. [Mapped feature: #140484 ] |
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| SDV365419 | Ground Photograph: Child, P.. 1988. Bank Barn, Hole Farm, Witheridge. Devon County Council Historic Buildings Photo. Photograph (Paper) + Digital. |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV37487 | Related to: Hole Farmhouse, Witheridge (Building) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Apr 12 2023 11:06AM |
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