SDO13177 - Sydling St Nicholas, Dorset. An Architectural Survey of the Tithe Barn

‘The rectorial barn at Sydling St Nicholas, Dorset was probably built in about 1400 by Milton Abbey as an 8-bay cruck barn with flint walls; only the sockets for the crucks survive, in the inside of the walls opposite the external buttresses. At a later date, most likely around the date recorded of the inscription recorded by Hutchins (‘LVW 1590’) the barn was reconstructed in aisled form in 10 or more bays with a queen-strut and collar roof. The east end was truncated and rebuilt in the 18th or 19th century.’