Barn 50 Metres North North East Of Fernhill Farmhouse

SJ 87 SE NETHER ALDERLEY C.P. CHELFORD ROAD (North Side)

8/114 Barn 50m NNE of Fernhill Farmhouse

GV II

Barn: C16 with C17 outshuts and early C19 brickwork. Some later C19 and C20 alterations. Timber framed with English garden wall bond orange brick end walls and infill. Graduated Kerridge stone-slate roof and stone ridge. Rectangular plan of 3-bay cruck framed corn barn with added outshuts. Exterior openings mainly C19 and include a loading bay on the south face under a hood oversailing on wooden brackets. : Interior: 2 full cruck frames on padstones have tiebeams (now cut away) collars and yokes. Short spurs to junction of wall plate and principal rafter. Side walls still mainly of small timber frames and east side has lintel of original cart entrance. Some of the outshuts' trusses survive but these portions considerably altered to modern shippons.

This is the site of a monastic grange and the barn may have been built when the farm was bought by a yeoman after the dissolution c.1540.

Listing NGR: SJ8516874534