Description

AVEBURY - SU 17 SW 11/43 Great Barn 22.8.66

GV I

Glebe barn attached to Manor Farm, now Wiltshire Folk Life study centre. Late C17. Timber framed and weatherboarded on stone sills. Thatched roof. Nine bays, with aisles returned at ends. Cartways in bays 2 and 8, bay 2 extended to north later by 1 bay forming porch. C20 glazed openings in weatherboarding on both sides. Roof has gablets and pent roofs over aisles, but attached to stone outbuildings on east end. Interior has tie beam trusses with struts to aisle posts supported on limestone pads, the posts deeply haunched. Raking struts to principal rafters and straight windbraces to single purlins. At ends, purlins supported by single re-used cruck blades. Purlin struts at half bays. Scarfs are square butt squinted joints. The barn contains much re-used timber but was re-numbered from the east end on erection. Restored 1978 for display of farm and country life.

Listing NGR: SU0999270007

External Links

• Wikidata Q17529919

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)