Oxfordshire Woodland Group

A Buckinghamshire barn with a cranked inner principal roof - type A1a (Clark, 2004).

This is a local barn roof type found mainly in S. Oxon. & Bucks. with a fairly narrow date range of 1750 - 1800 although one early cranked inner principal barn date of 1650 has been found at Crowmarsh Gifford, S. Oxon.

2 south facing roof bays have been retro fitted with thick glass roof tiles when the barn was used as an artist studio.

Cherry has been employed (obvious bark pattern) to good effect as wall studs with timber other than oak also evident (tie beam). Close inspection of upper timbers was not possible but consideration should be given to the widespread use of (Wytch) elm that can still be found in the adjacent woodland.

The cranked inner principal braces are likely to have been made from the swept butts of coppice regrowth butt stock.

Ref:- CLARK, D., 2004, Cranked Inner Principals, Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 35 Pages 32-39.