Barn at Witton Hall Farm

The barn, located northwest of Witton Hall Farm, is a rectangular building of seven bays oriented north to south. Constructed of random carboniferous sandstone rubble with dressed and margined quoins, it has a pitched roof of Welsh slate. The barn sits on ground sloping to the south.

The building is of one storey with a loft. The loft is lit by six wide glazed openings directly under the eaves on both sides, and by two on the south gable. The east elevation features a large, pegged oak door frame with chamfered jambs and a slightly arched lintel, possibly intended for harr-hung doors, now blocked. There is also a blocked slit vent and three inserted openings. The west elevation has a blocked doorway; its quoins are thought to be the remains of an original doorway opposing the one on the east wall. In addition, there are two inserted cart entrances and an external stair leading to a loft entrance at the north end. The north gable has a boarded loft pitching door and indicates the line of an earlier, steeper roof, with larger and rougher quoins. The south gable has ten pigeonholes with alighting ledges and a cart entrance.

Inside, the ground floor has a concrete floor, and a modern corrugated metal screen divides the interior into two sections. The walls are very thick, except for the southern two end bays. The loft floor rests upon thirteen wooden beams; five of these are reused tie beams from the original 15th-century roof structure, with mortises and peg holes. Four are placed on their sides, one is in its original position, and they each display three peg holes for the principal rafters. A number of the tie beams are notched for floor joists and bear carpenter’s marks. The loft's roof structure is of early 19th-century softwood construction, comprising nine trusses.