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Summary

Late 17th century threshing barn. Constructed from cob and stone rubble with a corrugated iron roof (formerly thatched), adjoining the rear right wing of Woodlands farmhouse. Single storey threshing barn with large doorway in the centre, opposed rear door. Two pegged collar rafter roof trusses with principal rafters with curved feet.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II*) 1097829: WOODLANDS FARMHOUSE AND BARN ADJOINING AT NORTH EAST

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX88NW/67/2
• Old Listed Building Ref (II*)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• THRESHING BARN (Built, XVII - 1650 AD to 1699 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, 1949, St. Thomas Rd, 15 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV336476.

Barn wing at west end of Woodlands farmhouse has hipped thatched roof and eight pigeon holes.

Department of Environment, 1988, Bridford, 42 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV350338.

Barn adjoining at north-east to Woodlands farmhouse. A single storey threshing barn adjoins the rear right wing of the house. The barn has a large doorway in the centre, opposed rear door. Two pegged collar rafter roof trusses with principal rafters with curved feet. Late 17th century threshing barn. Threshing barn cob and stone rubble with a corrugated iron roof (formerly thatched).

Ordnance Survey, 2017, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359962.

Barn is depicted on the modern mapping.

Historic England, 2017, National Heritage List for England, Accessed 14/03/2017 (National Heritage List for England). SDV359963.

BRIDFORD - HEATH LANE SX 88 NW 2/52 - Woodlands Farmhouse and barn adjoining at north east 11.11.52 GV II*
Farmhouse and adjoining barn. Farmhouse probably early C16 in origin, remodelled circa early/mid C17. Late C17 threshing barn. House whitewashed plastered cob on stone rubble footings ; thatched roof, gabled at ends ; projecting right end stack with granite shaft, axial stack with granite shaft, projecting rear lateral stack with 2 bread ovens. Threshing barn cob and stone rubble with a corrugated iron roof (formerly thatched), adjoining the rear right wing of the house.
Plan: L plan house with a rear right wing, parallel to the lane, the threshing barn adjoins the wing. The farmhouse is probably a late medieval open hall house in origin (no access to apex of roof). The present arrangement is a 4 room and cross passage plan, lower end parlour to the right, hall stack backing on to passage, kitchen at the higher end with an added dairy at the extreme left. Hall stair in rear projection, further stairs to the rear of the parlour and an axial stair against the rear wall of the dairy with access from the kitchen. A rear right 1 room plan wing at the lower end was originally accessible only from the exterior. The exact evolution of the house is not clear; the earliest roof truss is over the hall and there appears to have been some re-roofing over the lower end. C17 panelling in the kitchen is probably re-sited but suggests that this room once had a higher status.
Exterior: 2 storeys. 6 window asymmetrical front, the eaves thatch eyebrowed over the 3 left hand windows. C20 front door to cross passage with a porch canopy on posts, further doorway into dairy at left. 2- and 3-light C19 and C20 timber casements with glazing bars. The right return has 2 C20 windows to the wing. The rear elevation of the house is blind with one rounded bread oven and one rectangular brick bread oven to the rear lateral stack, and a shallow rectangular stair projection to the hall.
Interior: The hall has an open fireplace with moulded jambs and a timber lintel, 2 exposed crossbeams and a plank and muntin screen at the higher end with chamfered stopped muntins. A right angled section of plank and muntin screening with ovolo- moulded muntins forms a draught excluder adjacent to the open hearth. The inner room kitchen has a partly-blocked fireplace and a plastered over crossbeam. The plank and muntin screen to the hall is faced on this side with C17 panelling. The lower end parlour has a moulded crossbeam, the present fireplace probably conceals earlier jambs and lintel. Roof: No access to apex at time of survey (1986), but one truss over the hall is either a true or raised cruck, the timbers visible over the lower end appear to be later. A single storey threshing barn adjoins the rear right wing of the house. The barn has a large doorway in the centre, opposed rear door. 2 pegged collar rafter roof trusses with principal rafters with curved feet. The house may have been the home of Richard de le Wodelande (1281). An exceptionally good group with thatched farm buildings round the yard in front of the house.

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