Barn Immediately South Of Fairbanks Farmhouse

This barn and shippon incorporates what was once a house. The core of the barn dates to the early 18th century, with parts added in 1792; a datestone inscribed "TBIB 1689" (Thomas Bradbury) suggests an earlier association. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone with a corrugated metal roof.

The structure comprises a long range with a two-bay, two-storey former house attached to the east. Quoins are present. The former house has three-light ground floor windows and three-light first-floor windows, all featuring recessed cavetto-moulded mullions. A hay door has been inserted into the ground floor, along with two others; each has a corbelled lintel. The right gable displays two similar two-light windows and two arched windows at attic level. The gable on the opposite side, now an interior wall, contains an unusual paired arched light.

The rear elevation is partially obscured by a later parallel range, built in two phases. This later range has four, two, and three-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows. The barn itself has quoins, a door with a dressed surround between two hay doors, a loft hatch, a small pigeon-cote, kneelers, and a later lean-to addition against the left gable, with an arched attic light. Two hay doors are present, each with a corresponding rear entrance; one has a segmental-arched head and the other a dressed surround.

Inside, the barn retains one early king-post roof truss with curved struts and carpenters’ marks.