Episode Information Surrey: The Victorian Barn

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1. I have bought a farmhouse near Limoges in France and I am planning to convert the adjacent barn. It aleady has outline planning permission and my local French architect is currently completing the final drawings. This will be unusual as I live in Dubai and the architect will projct manage in my absence. If you are interested tracking the progress of the constuction please let me know and I will forward photographs and plans. Regards Nick Bentley

   Posted by Nick Bentley on 26/09/2008 08:42:14

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2. I just saw a repeat of this Surrey barn programme, in which Kevin also featured the Wycoller barn (now Visitor Centre) near Colne. As a quantity surveyor in the early 1970's working for Lancs C.C., I was involved with the original reconstruction of this Wycoller barn. It was in a sorry state. The gable of the building and all the trusses were leaning towards the beck. A small local builder with great determination and local knowledge and skills was awarded the contract. After removal of about a foot of well-rotted manure from the floor, the whole roof was stripped, at least one gable was taken down (if not both) and all the trusses were supported on a scaffolding frame. The small stone supports were then removed from under the trusses, and then (holding the breath!) jacks were used externally to pull all of the trusses back into a vertical position....which did work! Rotten trusses were repaired with epoxy resin, stainless steel rods and the like, the stone supports were rebuilt up to the underside of the trusses, the scaffold was removed, the gable(s) rebuilt and the roof reslated. Then I think probably the barn was closed up for another 25/30 years or so. Wycoller was a deserted village then. So I was surprised to visit it a few years back and to find a visitor centre there. A Lancs County Council website records an archaelogical report on the building, yet apart from the word 'maintenance in the 80's' there appears to be no reference to this contract at all, which did have, I am sure, a dramatic effect on the life of the building. Just thought I would fill in this, to me, fascinating detail of the barn's history from the years prior to 1976.

   Posted by Ray on 20/09/2008 15:48:43

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3. Hi Alka This is not something we have info on - if you go to page 4 of this feature, you'll find suppliers info and can get in touch with the relevant one. Thanks

   Posted by Lucy 4Homes Ed on 26/08/2008 14:21:08

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4. Hi Helen http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/grand-designs/episode-guides/surrey-the-victorian-barn-08-05-14_p_1.html This is where you'll find all the pics we have. Good luck!

   Posted by Lucy 4Homes Ed on 26/08/2008 14:20:08

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5. There was a brief glimpse of a bathroom which was mainly white but with splashes of colour of what looked like green and blue glass tiles . Is it possible to see a picture of that or similar schemes ?

   Posted by helen on 22/08/2008 02:19:14

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6. I thouht this house is beautiful. I partiularly like the lighting on the stairs. How did they achieve that effect?

   Posted by Alka Kedia on 05/08/2008 20:14:42

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