Building record 1249600000 - FRIARS VANE

Grade II. C17 and C18 altered and extended; brick; hipped tile roof, plaster coved eaves to north flank; two storeys, triple sash window to each floor on front elevation, earlier sash window on left section, which is the early C17 house. Northern part is C18 altered. Large offset stack to north walls, three sash windows to the right of it. North-west wing is an adapted barn, C18 timber framed with modern brick infill and casements. Large offset stack to north wall of house (B1).
The historic name for the fancifully named 'Friar's Vane' is Lands Farm, but a previous owner transferred this name to a new house built behind it. The house stands on what was, in 1615, demesne woodland. The earliest part of the house is on the south side, a two-bay unit of 1 1/2 storeys. On the
ground floor the bearer is on the line of the central truss, but there is no sign that there was ever a partition under it; a single room, 21' (6.46 m) long, occupied both bays. There was a stack on the south side, in the middle of the long wall, of which only the upper part survives. The upper floor was originally unlit: there are traces of windows where the soffits of the wall-plates have been cut into, but these are clearly secondary. The rail in the north wall shows not only the mortice for a stud that once formed part of the present frame, but an independent series of smaller mortices at 13" centres. It is re-used from a building with close studding, no doubt the Manor House.
The barn, one of the very few to survive in Coleshill, is of three bays, 261/2' x 14' (8.15 x 4.3 m). Modern additions now join it to the house. Documentary evidence suggests the house was built, and its land cleared, between 1628 and 1633. Its first known occupant is Zwinglius Pratt, attested there in 1641. [Social and economic history of building; plan, sections and elevation] (B2).