Building record 2600/0/40 - Barn and attached cartshed approx. 50m NE of Manor House

A barn with an attached cart shed is located approximatly 50 meters north east of the Manor House, on the eastern side of Chapel Street. The barn is constructed of squared coursed limestone with a double pitch Collyweston slate roof with ashlar gable parapets. The southern facade has a hipped central projecting cart porch with three rows of flanking ventilation slits. The northern facade has a large central cart entrance that rises to the eaves with similar ventilation slits to the southern facade. A datestone on the left gable gives a construction date of 1716.

Barn. Datestone 1716 restored C19. Squared coursed limestone with Colleyweston slate roof. Single-unit barn with central porch. 3 bays of ventilation slits flanking porch. Pitch holes to either side of porch are now blocked. Central cart entrance has no doors. Plank door in return wall of porch. Hipped roof to porch and ashlar gable parapets to ends. Rear elevation has central cart entrance, with plank doors, and flanking pitch holes also with plank doors. Ventilation slits similar to front elev tion. Datestone in left gable. Sheds attached to right of main front have open front with brick piers. Interior not inspected but roof probably restored C19. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p163)

{3} To the east is a granary of the early 18th century;

{4} Undated photo;

Historic England, Undated, MANOR HOUSE, WARMINGTON, BF084487 (Archive). SNN114356.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 15/150 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G10; District of Listing: East Northamptonshire. 25-Jan-1988. (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 163/site 26 (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Warmington (Photographs). SNN114089.

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