Building record 8315/1/2 - The Wool Barn c.10m North West of Townsend Farmhouse

{1} Barn and cartshed. Early/mid C19. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar gable end and concrete tile roof. Ground floor is a cart shed with loft at first floor. Elevation to road has small pair of double doors under renewed wood lintel to far left. Right gable has 2 cart entrances under segmental arch heads with square stone pier between. Central first floor door to barn, on left, has similar head. Similar smaller door above in apex of gable. Rear elevation has 4 square casement openings, under w od lintels, at first floor. Plank door to ground floor far right. Interior: probably retains original floor and roof structures. Thought to have been a wool barn.

{3} Slides of main barn and wool barn taken in 1997 prior to redevelopment.

{4} Photos taken in response to application to convert farm buildings to accommodation.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 11/38 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G09 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Ellison M., 1997, SMR Report Form, (checked) (SMR Report Form). SNN53953.

<4> Ellison M., 1998, SMR Report Form, (checked) (SMR Report Form). SNN49148.

<5> Ellison, M., 1998, Townsend Farm, Photographs, (unchecked) (Photographs). SNN52314.

<6> Savills & Bradshaw, J., 1998, Townsend Farm, Upper Benefield, (checked) (Photographic prints (COL)). SNN103186.

Record last edited

May 5 2015 3:54PM