louvred, which could be either fixed or adjustable. In some instances the windows were filled in with a lattice of timber slats providing both light and ventilation yet excluding birds. Although the grain could be stored loose or in sacks, it was more common, particularly in the smaller, separate buildings, for it to be stored […]
Category: Timber-Framed, Buildings of England
Farm buildings, granaries
Granary based on Peper, Harrow Those situated at first-floor level were generally placed over a cartshed, the air circulating beneath the partially or often whole open ground floor, helping to keep the place dry. There are many examples of these to be found: undoubtedly the finest is the large granary at Peper Harow, Surrey, built […]
Farm buildings, barns
the east gable having certain details which can be ascribed to the Anglo-Saxons. Middle Littleton tithe barn, near Evesham, which dates from about 1300, has, like Siddington, two end bays of aisled construction with eight intermediate base-crucks. Again as at Siddington, the walls are of stone. Unfortunately one of the base-crucks has been replaced, and […]
Rogate tithe barn, West Sussex
arrangement can be found in Lancashire. In Sussex and Surrey too some barns appear to have been designed to house cattle. In West Sussex and east Hampshire another type of aisled barn was common, in which the aisles continued around the ends as well, forming a continuous eaves broken only by the tall barn doors. […]
Priors Hall barn, Widdington, Essex
is confirmed by the work carried out by Sheridan Ebbage in that county. Aisled barns are also to be found in South Yorkshire, the Pen – nines, especially in the Aire and Calder Valleys to the east and the Ribble Valley to the west, and parts of central Lancashire. These barns, like most of the […]