Leigh Court Barn is a cruck framed barn at

Leigh, Worcestershire Leigh is a village and civil parish (with a parish council shared with Bransford) in the Malvern Hills district of the county of Worcestershire, England. With just a few hundred inhabitants the parish lies on the A4103, the main Worcester to He ...

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, built in the early fourteenth century to store produce for

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. It is the largest and one of the oldest cruck barns in Britain, measuring over long, wide and high, supported by nine pairs of massive oak beams. Radiocarbon dating places its construction about 1325.Cruck Barn, Leigh Court (British Listed Buildings)
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Buildings and structures completed in 1325 Barns in England Grade I listed buildings in Worcestershire Timber framed buildings in England Tithe barns in Europe Grade I listed agricultural buildings Malvern Hills {{WestMidlands-struct-stub