Great Barn Avebury, England
Listed Building Data
Great Barn has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1286423
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 22 August 1966
- Name
- GREAT BARN
- Location
- GREAT BARN
- Parish
- Avebury
- District
- Wiltshire
- Grid Reference
- SU 10034 70034
- Easting
- 410033.7800
- Northing
- 170034.0035
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
AVEBURY - SU 17 SW 11/43 Great Barn 22.8.66
GV I
Glebe barn attached to Manor Farm, now Wiltshire Folk Life study centre. Late C17. Timber framed and weatherboarded on stone sills. Thatched roof. Nine bays, with aisles returned at ends. Cartways in bays 2 and 8, bay 2 extended to north later by 1 bay forming porch. C20 glazed openings in weatherboarding on both sides. Roof has gablets and pent roofs over aisles, but attached to stone outbuildings on east end. Interior has tie beam trusses with struts to aisle posts supported on limestone pads, the posts deeply haunched. Raking struts to principal rafters and straight windbraces to single purlins. At ends, purlins supported by single re-used cruck blades. Purlin struts at half bays. Scarfs are square butt squinted joints. The barn contains much re-used timber but was re-numbered from the east end on erection. Restored 1978 for display of farm and country life.
Listing NGR: SU0999270007
