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

[Alicia Primer]

Hello
Weston’s Demo Delay bylaw references the inclusion of any part of any building, any part of which was built pre 1945. I’d imagine that Sudbury’s is similar. If the Commission determines that the barn is Significant, it would stand then to reason that the Demo Delay could be imposed to protect the very foundation of that building.
As an aside, during my years on the Weston HC, we voted many times to designate outbuildings Significant. They are more endangered even than our historic houses and important to the fabric of our towns.
Good luck.
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Subject: [MassHistPres] Help: Question about Applicability of Demo Delay Bylaw for Demo of a Barn's Stone Foundation

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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