Listed Building record MDO17373 - Barn at Winfrith Fields Farm, Winfrith Newburgh

A barn built in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. The building had walls of brick with diaper pattern at the gable end, and a tiled roof.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 378 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(3) WINFRITH FIELDS FARM, also known as the Manor House, of brick with some coursed rubble and roofed with stone slates and tiles, was built in the late 16th century but was extensively remodelled in the early 19th century. Outbuildings (Plate 52), including some of 16th-century date, stand to the N. and E. … A Barn, 80 yds. E. of the house, of coursed rubble, partly rebuilt in brick, and with a thatched roof, is of the 16th century. It has a porch with lean-to roof on the S.W. side. The barn roof (Pt. 1, Fig. p. lxv) is supported by jointed cruck trusses with arch-braced collars, the ridge piece being carried on yokes joining the heads of the principals.’

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