MSO10005 - Post-medieval barn at Stamborough Farm (Building)

Shippon/barn. Circa early C17. Slate rubble. Gable-ended roof clad in corrugated sheet steel. PLAN: 5-bays, built into hillside with opposing doorways in second bay from lower N end. In about C19 a loft floor was built in the lower end bay with a cider press underneath. EXTERIOR: East front has doorway to right of centre with timber lintel and original chamfered wooden frame with Tudor arch head. Similar opposing doorframe on west side, but masonry to left [N] of doorway collapsed. Ventilation slits in end gables. INTERIOR: Complete 5-bay roof structure with side-pegged jointed cruck trusses with mortice and tenoned cranked collars, two tiers of trenched side purlins, and trenched diagonally-set ridgepiece; end hips survive. Common-rafters and thatch battens are intact on east side, and some of the common-rafters remain on the west side, re-used longitudinally spanning the bays. The building also retains its stone floor. Ladder to loft at lower end, with cider-press under. [1] English Heritage Listed Building Number: 469062. First Listed on 09/02/1998. [2] Stone, Random rubble walls. Gabled roof [3] The building was visited in June 2013 as part of the rapid condition survey of Exmoor's Listed Buildings 2012-13. It received a BAR score of 6. [4]