Barn at Rearsby House, Farm Mill Road, Rearsby (Grade II)

Geo: 52.7233, -1.0421
Date ListedTue 9th October, 1984
CategoryStatutory Listed Building
AddressBarn to Rearsby House Farm Mill Road Rearsby LE7 4YN
GradeGrade II
Grid ReferenceSK6479314397
LBS189552
Volume, Map, Item285, 3, 86
ParishRearsby
WardWreake Villages
Conservation AreaRearsby
Description

Large barn. Dated 1715. Brick with new tiled roof. Central high double doorway with steep segmental brick arched head, and pilaster buttresses to each side of it. In the left hand bay a single squared light, and the date in blue bricks. Right hand bay obscured by modern building at right angles to it. Brick steeply coped gables: the upper most a C19 rebuild, and nogged. Inside, buttresses support the tie beams of roughly shaped trusses, the tie beams are braced, the principal rafters halved and pinned, and with trenched purlins. Lower tie beams form the basis of an inserted floor.

The description above describes the salient features of the building as it was at the date of listing. It is given in order to aid identification; it is not intended to be either comprehensive or exclusive.

Statutory Listing covers all parts of the property and its curtilage, ie all internal and external elements whether described or not.