Easington Tithe Barn
building in Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Easington Tithe Barn is a historic building in Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England.
The tithe barn was around 1500, to serve as a threshing barn. The walls were later rebuilt. In the 19th century, an extension was constructed as a horse mill. The south gable was rebuilt in 1985 and 1986. The building was long owned by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, but in 1929, they sold the barn and it was converted into a folk museum. This closed during World War II and did not reopen. The building has been grade II* listed since 1987, and is also a scheduled monument. Historic England describe is as "a rare survival with framing largely intact".
The barn is timber framed, with brick walls and a hipped thatched roof.
“Easington Tithe Barn” enters the record as building in Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Easington, Tithe and Barn can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17554433. Authority coordinates are 53.650, 0.114. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1500, 1985, 1986 and 1929.
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