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Foulden Old Tithe Barn

A Scheduled Monument in East Berwickshire, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.7955 / 55°47'43"N

Longitude: -2.1114 / 2°6'40"W

OS Eastings: 393115

OS Northings: 655802

OS Grid: NT931558

Mapcode National: GBR F1PF.PB

Mapcode Global: WH9Y9.JLTH

Entry Name: Foulden Old Tithe Barn

Scheduled Date: 4 February 1997

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Source ID: SM90148

Schedule Class: Cultural

Category: Industrial: farming, food production; Secular: barn

Location: Foulden

County: Scottish Borders

Electoral Ward: East Berwickshire

Traditional County: Berwickshire

Description

The monument consists of an 18th- or early 19th-century barn and its court yard adjacent to the church whose teinds or tithes were stored in it.

The barn is an attractive two-storey stone building with crowstepped gables, approached by an outside stair. On the N side, beside the road the joists of the main floor reach through to the outside of the wall; below is a basement level approached directly by doors in the S wall. Above these is a timber loft. The building was altered in the

19th century, with the addition of an elegant chimney, a

rearrangement of the interior and an extra door.

The area to be scheduled includes the barn and the courtyard to the E of it, is irregular on plan and measures a maximum of 26m E-W by 17m N-S, as marked in red on the accompanying plan.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

The monument is of national importance because it is a rare survival of a tithe barn still associated with its church. It provides evidence of the architecture of this form of building and physical evidence for a now-vanished form of taxation.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Sources

Bibliography

RCAHMS records the monument as NT 95 NW 9.
Historic Environment Scotland Properties
Foulden Tithe Barn
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/foulden-tithe-barn
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Related Designations


FOULDEN TITHE BARN INCLUDING COBBLED YARD AND BOUNDARY WALLSLB10510
Designation TypeListed Building (A)StatusRemoved

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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