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Listed Building: FORMER CRUCK BARN AT GOSFORTH FARM (1045902)

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Grade II
Authority English Heritage
Volume/Map/Item 1263, 5, 56
Date assigned 30 September 1980
Date last amended 07 July 1989

Description

House, formerly farm outbuilding. Late C16, with alterations in C19 and converted to a dwelling 1983/4. Coursed rubble coal measures sandstone, with quoins and a low stone plinth, plain gables and a stone slated roof. Three bay building now with two storeys, formerly with overlofts. Former central full height opening with quoined surround, now with C20 glazed screen. Remaining openings to south elevation are C20 additions, as is the lean-to to the west end. East gable with C19 doorway and flanking window openings, with massive dressings and C20 glazing. Stone framed overloft doorway above door. Interior has two full cruck trusses, with the remnant of a third embedded in the west gable. Trusses remain full height rising from within wall thickness, with spur ties at plate level. Collar and yoke beam, into which the blades are morticed, giving a horizontal platform for the ridge purlin. Single purlin roof, with some windbraces surviving. (formerly listed as cruck barn at Gosforth Farm)

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Location

Grid reference SK 33942 78823 (point)
Map sheet SK37NW
Civil Parish DRONFIELD, NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE

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Record last edited

Dec 5 2013 3:57PM

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