Listed Building record MDR16457 - Barn to North of Church Farmhouse, Dethick Lane, Dethick, Lea and Holloway

Barn to north of Church Farmhouse, Dethick Lane, Dethick, Lea and Holloway, a late 16th century building. 'A long, two-storey rubble barn dating to the 16th-17th century stands to the north of the farmhouse. It is part of the old farm buildings of the Babington property. It originally had six buttresses with offsets each side, but these have now mostly gone. It has four centred headed doors in various places, and mullioned windows. It has a slate roof.' (1) From the National Heritage List for England: 'SK 35 NW PARISH OF DETHICK, LEA AND HOLLOWAY DETHICK LANE (OFF) 1/51 Barn to the north of Church 13-2-67 Farmhouse(formerly listed as barn to Church Farm) GV II Barn. Late C16, with alterations in C17 and C19. Regularly coursed squared gritstone with stepped angle buttresses to north-west gable. Slated roof. Two storeys, formerly with further overloft at south-east end, seven bays, the bays formerly delineated by shallow stepped buttresses, all of which have been removed, but with fragments of their masonry remaining embedded in the side walls. North west gable with doorway beneath four centred arch to centre of ground floor with flanking blocked openings. Above, two openings to upper floor, one above the other; with roughly hewn massive jambs and C19 glazing. Other four centred arched heads to openings to first floor on the north-east wall, now concealed by C20 lean-to. Irregular pattern of later inserted openings to ground floor of south west wall, but with three original taking-in doors with boarded shutters to first floor. Glazed four centred arched opening to south-east gable ground floor, and blocked openings to first floor, flanking an internal shallow chimney breast. Interior: double purlin roof with cambered tie beams and curved wind braces, some trusses with collars, but those to north west end modified, with vertical struts supporting purlin junctions at collar and yoke level, rising from tie and collar beams. One truss at upper end of the barn closed above collar with vertical studs, and with mortices for studs between collar and tie beam. Listing NGR: SK3270858006.' (2)