Large Barn at Countess Farm England, UK

Listed Building Description

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AMESBURY COUNTESS ROAD SU 14 SE (west side)

6/35 Large Barn at Countess Farm formerly listed as Outbuildings to 31.12.74 Avon School)

GV II Barn, now farm equipment store. Later C18. Timber framed on brick sills, weatherboarded, and plain tiled roof. Seven bays, with central cartway and midstrey on south side. Lean-to sheds added either side, and to east gable end. Irregular paned windows. C20 machinery access doors in west gable. Interior has jowled posts with straight braces to wall plate and straight chamfered tie- beams. Queen struts and collar. Single tier of purlins with wind braces. Ridge. Horizontal struts between purlins at mid-bay point. No wall bressumers. Trusses number from west, ticked on north side. Roof half hipped. Graffiti on wall post read: TS 178(?)1, WF 1796, WT 1822, and 1842. One of an important group of later C18 farm buildings at Countess Farm (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SU1530642149