Building record 0027504000 - MOAT BARN AND GRANARY BARN

Summary

Two late eighteenth century timber-framed barns, converted to houses in the twentieth century

Protected Status/Designation

  • Conservation Area: Four Ashes Conservation Area
  • Listed Building (II) 1160416: GRANARY BARN AND MOAT BARN
  • SHINE: Four Ashes medieval to post medieval moat and enclosure

Map

Type and Period (3)

  • BARN (18th Century to Modern - 1700 AD to 1999 AD)
  • HOUSE (Altered about 1980, 20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED BARN (18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)

Description

Grade II. Two houses, formerly barns. Late C18, converted to dwellings c.1980. Timber framed with C20 weatherboard cladding, rebuilt brick plinths, old tile roofs, C20 brick chimneys. L-plan. One storey and attic. Moat Barn is of 5 bays. Centre bay has gabled projection, formerly cart entry but with front rebuilt in brick and timber, now containing door and flanking glazed panels. Flanking bays have catslide projections, each with 2 C20 single lights. 2 more single lights in right bay, garage in left bay, 4 skylights. Granary Barn is slightly lower with hipped roof and hexagonal louvred turret at right end. 5 C20 rectangular lights, 2 tall narrow windows to right, off-centre door. Rebuilt brick projections of one storey at right end. Rear has C20 barred wooden casements, and gabled projection near left end. Slender queen strut trusses, braced tie beams (B6).

Sources (9)

  • <1>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. pp57, 59.
  • <2>SBC7708 Bibliographic reference: LIPSCOMB 3 P562.
  • <3>SBC11632 Bibliographic reference: PAYNE E J 1896 MONTFORTS, WELLESBOURNES & THE HUGH ENDEN EFFIGIES, RECSOFBUCKS7PP387FF"".
  • <4>SBC8072 Bibliographic reference: M E FARLEY, JAN 1973/CAS CARD 0275.
  • <5>SBC8071 Map: M E FARLEY, FROM HUGHENDEN TITHE MAP, 1844 & M E F ARLEY OCT 1981 FIELD VISIT (SEE ANNOTATED EXTRACT.
  • <6>SBC20224 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Wycombe District: Parishes of Bledlow &C.
  • <7>SBC7324 Bibliographic reference: LANGLEY T 1797 HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF THE HUNDRE D OF DESBOROUGH PP298-300.
  • <8>SBC4300 Bibliographic reference: DOWNS R S 1881 HISTORY OF HUGHENDEN, RECSOFBUCKS5PP192-193"".
  • <9>SBC23248 Bibliographic reference: Wycombe District Council. 2006. Four Ashes Conservation Area Character Survey.

Location

Grid reference SU 87589 95666 (point)
Civil Parish HUGHENDEN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC13598)

Record last edited

May 17 2023 6:30PM

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