Listed Building record MDO9425 - Barton Barn, formerly Church Barn, West Stafford

Barn built in the early eighteenth century, and last used for industrial purposes. The roof is of jointed cruck construction, thatched, and the walls of the building are stone rubble below and timber-framed with brick infilling above.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 267-268 (Monograph). SDO149.

'The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of two storeys with walls of cob and rubble and thatched roofs and are of the 18th century. … (10) BARN (60 yds. S.E.) has the upper part of the long walls timber-framed, with brick panels (Plate 52). The roof trusses (Plate 53; Fig., Pt. I, p. lxv) are of scarfed-cruck construction with collar beams. Posts and blades are joined by loose tenons pegged to both members; cleats between blades and collar beams are fixed in the same way.'

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