Obvs with listed stuff you have to be careful. I have no idea how often anyone inspects anything. One of the really daft things is that they have front windows which are metal, smallish panes almost Crittall except they were individually made to fit the window spaces and THESE flipping things are now listed!!!
They have sliding secondary double glazing on the inside. So really pretty horrible. So they are going to have to have made double glazing units out of metal that look like the "originals", which are hardly original to a 19th century barn conversion as they were probably made in the 1960s. . Don't think it got listed until the 1980s or 90s.
The problem with the wooden uprights is that the bottoms have turned to powder and they don't know how far up the rot has gone. They aren't just two uprights at the ends of the walls, they are spaced across the wall at about 3 to 4 foot intervals. I'll really have to look harder at trying to enhance the rubbish pics I took so you can see what I mean. I don't think they are load bearing, but who knows? Each one is about 3" by 3" so may just be part of the 17th century barn/ bier walls or dividers.
Here is the opposite wall with the space to the left where the big copper had been, the inglenook and the bread oven, which apparently may have been fired from outside, although there ias an obvious hole at the bottom, maybe for ash removal.
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The floor has now been lowered, I am 5'9" and can stand underneath that lowest beam which is at right angles to the fireplace, but if i put my hand flat on my head it touches, well, hets a bit squashed so you can imagine how much lower it was before the work.
This is the wall I am on about. The verticals with the rotten bottoms are clear. Although I was unable to photograph the bottoms of them. (I hardly ever use my phone as a camera.)
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The door shows the height of the floor before.
The place is thatched,
and weirdly the roof has at some point been raised so there is more headroom under the gables etc than there is downstairs.
Some people really are gluttons for punishment. Still the extension etc will be much more practical!