Great Coxwell Barn

In 1204 the Manor of Faringdon was granted by King John to the Cistercian Abbey of Beaulieu, in Hampshire. A cell from Beaulieu was soon formed at Great Coxwell and the Great Barn is likely to have been completed by the middle of the 13th century, as the building of such barns was given high priority in the Cistercian order.

It remained under the control of Beaulieu until the dissolution, when it passed into the hands of the Moore family. It was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1956 by Mr EE Cook, who had bought it in 1945.