[MassHistPres] Help: Question about Applicability of Demo Delay Bylaw for Demo of a Barn's Stone Foundation

[diana warren]

The Sudbury Historical Commission is deliberating whether or not a type of
partial demolition is subject to our Demolition Delay Bylaw. We would
appreciate feedback from others on this listserv.

The property in question (MACRIS SUD.58) is an 18th Century Federal house
with an old stone foundation  - with several outbuildings including a
"barn".  The structure in question is the barn - its stone foundation is to
be removed and replaced with a poured concrete foundation, but no work on
the body of the structure qualifies as a partial demo. The inventory only
provides information that the barn "...is not as old as house" and "...is
not original but was built with wood from an old New Hampshire barn".

Does the demolition of the current foundation require that it be subject to
the demo bylaw?

It seems that if the structure itself is found to not be "historically
significant" then even though the foundation may be determined to be an old
foundation, perhaps original to a structure previously sitting on top of
it, then the removal of the barn's stone foundation would not be subject to
the Demo bylaw? On the other hand if the barn structure were to be
determined by the Commission to be historically significant then the demo
bylaw would apply?

Diana Warren
Sudbury Historical Commission
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