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Description: Barn approximately 1.5 metres to north-east Lower Wat Ing

Address: Lower Wat Ing Barn London Road Norland Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire HX6 3QY

Grade: II

Group detail: London Road (east side, off), Norland

Full description:
Barn. C17 with earlier origins. Coursed squared stone and rubble brought to course; stone slate roof. 5 bays with front aisle. North-east front: brick outshut extension on left (not of interest) masks central recessed cart entry with socketed wood lintel and shallow Tudor-arched doorway to either side into aisles. Left aisle has a chamfered light, right aisle one single and one tripled round arched vent. Shaped kneelers, coping. Rear: right bay of rubble. Central chamfered quoined basket-arched doorway with datestone above reading '1663' IMM', possibly reused (as of different stone); chamfered arched vent to left. Right return: chamfered quoined Tudor-arched doorway on left; arched vents; chamfered owl hole in gable. Interior: 5 trusses with post braced to arcade plate and tie-beams and braces from front wall to tie-beams supported on corbels. A queen-strut, a king-post and 2 open trusses with trenched purlins and old rafters. The 2 outer tie-beams have mortices for studs, indicating their original use in closing trusses, and the arcade plate also has mortices for studs indicating its original use as a wall plate. These factors and the 2 sets of carpenters marks on the trusses indicate that the barn is a rebuilding of a timber framed barn, which the RCHM report suggests was of at least 7 bays and single-aisled. RCHM(E) Report (31470).