Building record 1074200000 - BARN TO S OF THE GLEBE HOUSE

Grade II. Small barn. C18. Rubble stone, thatched roof. Four bays. Two boarded openings to left, barred casement to right of centre. Rear has eaves swept down to left, low cart entry to right of centre, garage entry to left and boarded openings to outer bays. One bay extension with hipped roof to SW. Included for group value (B1).
This 17th century, four-bay, small, thatched barn in the grounds of the Glebe House and south west of the church, lies parallel to Main Street. Although much altered, it retains one roof truss constructed from a pair of re-used upper cruck blades. Because it matches the width of the present barn, it is possible that the cruck was re-used from its earlier roof. In the chronology of cruck construction, upper crucks tend to be later; a date in the later 16th or 17th century would, therefore, seem appropriate here for its original use. When the barn was later re-roofed, possibly in the 19th century, the resent truss was constructed. The position of the barn and its size suggests that it was a tithe barn for the rectory of Lillingstone Lovell, the present glebe house, dated to the first quarter of the 18th century (B2).