MSO10005 - Post-medieval barn at Stamborough Farm (Building)

Summary

A shippon or barn dating from the early 17th Century and built from slate rubble. A loft was built in the lower end bay in the 19th Century and this has a cider press underneath.

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Full Description

Shippon/barn. Circa early C17. Slate rubble. Gable-ended roof clad in corrugated sheet steel. PLAN: 5-bays, built into hillside with opposing doorways in second bay from lower N end. In about C19 a loft floor was built in the lower end bay with a cider press underneath. EXTERIOR: East front has doorway to right of centre with timber lintel and original chamfered wooden frame with Tudor arch head. Similar opposing doorframe on west side, but masonry to left [N] of doorway collapsed. Ventilation slits in end gables. INTERIOR: Complete 5-bay roof structure with side-pegged jointed cruck trusses with mortice and tenoned cranked collars, two tiers of trenched side purlins, and trenched diagonally-set ridgepiece; end hips survive. Common-rafters and thatch battens are intact on east side, and some of the common-rafters remain on the west side, re-used longitudinally spanning the bays. The building also retains its stone floor. Ladder to loft at lower end, with cider-press under. [1] English Heritage Listed Building Number: 469062. First Listed on 09/02/1998. [2] Stone, Random rubble walls. Gabled roof [3] The building was visited in June 2013 as part of the rapid condition survey of Exmoor's Listed Buildings 2012-13. It received a BAR score of 6. [4]

Sources/Archives (4)

  • <1> Index: 9/2/1998. 13th amendment of 31st List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. District of West Somerset (Somerset).
  • <2> Unassigned: Webster CJ, Historic Environment Record. 2005. Staff Comments, Somerset County Council.
  • <3> Unpublished document: Somerset County Council. Various. Somerset HER parish files - Exmoor records.
  • <4> Report: Lawrence, G.. 2014. Exmoor National Park: Rapid condition survey of listed buildings 2012-13.

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Other Statuses/References

  • 2012-3 Building At Risk Score (6): 375/4/10007
  • Local List Status (Unassessed)
  • National Park: Exmoor National Park
  • Somerset SMR PRN: 12293

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Location

Grid reference Centred ST 0292 3679 (6m by 16m)
Map sheet ST03NW
Civil Parish OLD CLEEVE, WEST SOMERSET, SOMERSET

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Record last edited

Apr 19 2021 12:21PM

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