Description

CASTLETON WYKE ST 61 SW Two Barns 120 metres 9/40 north-west of Wyke House 11.7.51 - II* Two Barns in a continuous range. C16. Rubble-stone walls, snecked and coursed. Stone slate roofs with stone gable-copings. Buttresses to each bay, with two weatherings per buttress. South-east barn of 11 bays and one end bay beyond an internal masonry wall, has two square porches with pitched roofs and weatherboarding. Two-leaf plank doors. Surviving loops. (East elevation). These are through-entrances without porches on west side. North-west barn has two opposed square porches, with pitched roofs. Solid wall internally divides this barn from that to south-east. In last bay before wall, through- passage entered via doorway, with heavy and chamfered door-frame and cambered head, C16 or C17. Entrances other than porches, four on the west side, two on the east side, see RCHM plan. Interior: roof-construction: mid-crucks, some jointed, some whole, with collar-beams and large arch braces. 3 sets of through-purlins. 2 sets of wind-bracing. Much of the construction in the lower barn has been renewed, or re-inforced in C19 and C20. (RCHM Dorset I, p.70(6), including Plan).

Listing NGR: ST6001614616

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