Monument record MDO2592 - Tithe barn at Court Farm, Sydling St Nicholas

A barn with walls built of flint rubble with stone buttresses and a thatched roof supported by wooden beams. The original building is thought to have been built around 1400, and was remodelled in the 16th century. The building was longer but was shorted to nine and a half bays long in the 18th or 19th century.

Tithe Barn at Sydling St Nicholas is a flint-rubble building with buttressed walls and a thatched roof, partly repaired with corrugated iron. The barn has been shortened at the east end and is now of nine and a half bays. Oak posts with tie and collar beam trusses form the internal aisles. According to Hutchins, a beam in the roof bore the date and initials "LVW 1590". <1>

As described. The initials and date on the beam were not seen. <2>

The building is as described above excepting the roof which is now entirely of corrugated iron. (See ground photograph). <5>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 233 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(4) BARN at Court Farm, 50 yards S.E. of the church, is of flint rubble with two-stage stone buttresses and a thatched roof. According to Hutchins a beam in the barn bore or bears the initials and date L.V.W. 1590 for Lady Ursula Walsingham. The barn has been shortened at the E. end. It is now of nine and a half bays with oak posts forming aisles and tie and collar-beam trusses with curved braces.’

<1.1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2, 497-498 (Monograph). SWX1269.

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 13-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 414 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1974 (Map). SDO17396.

(SY 63069923) Tithe Barn [NR]

<5> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 24-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<6> Munby, J, 1992, Sydling St Nicholas, Dorset. An Architectural Survey of the Tithe Barn (Unpublished document). SDO13177.

<7> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1993, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1992, 249 (Serial). SDO92.

‘SYDLING ST NICHOLAS TITHE BARN. A survey was carried out in April 1992 by Oxford Archaeological Unit for Dorset County Council and English Heritage on the roof and walls of the late medieval barn (RCHM West Dorset 233). It was found that the aisled barn was probably a 16th-century replacement of an earlier roof of cruck construction, for which wall sockets were found inside the buttresses. Copies of the photographs and measured survey have been deposited in the county site and monuments record.’

<8> Sykes, D, and Ford, B, 2012, Tithe Barn, Church Lane (South), Sydling St Nicholas, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO14781.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453043 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 3:18PM