Bramfield Pool Barn
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This is a spectacular oak framed pool barn on a grand scale. It employs a raised tie sling braced truss, and being in Suffolk has a steeply pitched roof typical of the local vernacular style. Achieving a 9+ metre span was not easy and required a carefully engineered design. (Photography: Duncan McNichol)
External view; classic Suffolk style barn with steeply pitched pan-tiled roof and large barge boards at the gables concealing the edge of the tiles at the verge. (Photography: Duncan McNichol)
A doubled up plate arrangement allows the porch to span across two bays of structure and enables the insertion of a post to pick up the sling brace of the truss. (Photography: Duncan McNichol)
Oak frame carpentry is a very early form of a pre fabricated modular system now the byword in modern construction and which creates an appealing rhythmic repetition of trusses through the long axis of the building. (Photography: Duncan McNichol)
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Alastair, The Early Years Project
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Robert, Trembath Associates
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Paul, Contracts Manager
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Julia, Crabfields Farm
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Simon, National Trust