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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 06 SW 1193 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | FAVERSHAM ABBEY MAJOR BARN |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1480 to 1832
| Grid Reference: | TR 0211 6176 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR06SW |
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| Parish: | FAVERSHAM, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1480 AD to 1832 AD) + Sci.Date
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 0261 FAVERSHAM ABBEY FIELDS
659/5/10003 Faversham Abbey Major barn
GV II*
Monastic aisled barn. Circa 1500 with some early C19 alterations. Part of Faversham Abbey. Aisled timberframed barn clad in tarred weatherboarding on red brick plinth. Hipped roof now covered in corrugated iron sheeting. Early C19 hipped cart entrance to east and lean-to to north east, Barn is 132 feet long, lying north-south and assembled from the north. Six full bays, of which the third narrower bay forms the only passage, and shored axial posts to the ends. Jowled aisled posts with slender tension braces and passing braces, three of which are missing to the south east aisle. The crown posts are nearly chamfered and clasp the collar purlin jowled on each side, with 2 head braces. Some sections of the wall frame were replaced in the early C19 and at least two bays have rafters replaced at that time. Inserted early C19 first floor to north on mezzanine floor with a wooden hoist wheel. Both arcade and wall plates have faced halved scarf joints.
(See S E Rigold 'Some Major Kentish Timber Bams; Arch. Cant. LXXXI P16 & 18. Julia Bennett . Anthony Blackwell ' Traditional Kent Buildings no 6 Abbey Farm, Faversham' 1988 p16-27). (2)
Listing NGR: TR0204060907
(1)
Dendrochronology dating gave a date of c.1475. (3-4)
A survey of the barn in 1997 states that 'the DOE list description dates the barn to C1500... However, it is clearly of at least two builds, the earlier dating to perhaps Cl370'. (5)
Keystone Historic Buildings Consultants, 2001, Conservation Plan for Abbey Farm, Faversham, Kent and the surrounding land (Unpublished document). SKE17447.
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> Julia Bennett and Anthony Blackwell, 1988, Abbey Farm, Faversham (Bibliographic reference). SKE17404.
<3> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 30, Pg. 93 (Website). SKE17391.
<4> English Heritage, 1998, Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from the Major and Minor Barns at Abbey Farm, Faversham, Kent (Unpublished document). SWX6797.
<5> Sell, Wade & Postins, 1997, The Future of Faversham Abbey Farm, The barns, farmstead and wider site (Unpublished document). SKE51760.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: Keystone Historic Buildings Consultants. 2001. Conservation Plan for Abbey Farm, Faversham, Kent and the surrounding land. |
| <1> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: Julia Bennett and Anthony Blackwell. 1988. Abbey Farm, Faversham. |
| <3> | Website: Vernacular Architecture Group. ADS Dendrochronology Database. Vol. 30, Pg. 93. |
| <4> | Unpublished document: English Heritage. 1998. Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from the Major and Minor Barns at Abbey Farm, Faversham, Kent. |
| <5> | Unpublished document: Sell, Wade & Postins. 1997. The Future of Faversham Abbey Farm, The barns, farmstead and wider site. |
