Hougher Fall Farm Cruck Barn

The Hougher Fall Farm Cruck Barn is a barn, likely dating to the 17th century, situated approximately north-south. The ground falls to the south, affecting internal ground levels. The barn is constructed with timber framing of three full cruck trusses, incorporating saddles, spurs, purlins, and a housed ridge beam, all braced against stone walling. The timber structure is encased in a mix of squared and coursed stone, and random rubble, with quoins. The roof is covered with Welsh slate.

The barn has three bays plus part of a bay at the north end. The east elevation features a doorway at the southern end, a cart entrance with double wooden doors adjacent to the southernmost cruck, and a second doorway at the north end between the northern cruck and the north wall. The two small doors have stone lintels, and the south east corner has prominent quoins. The cart entrance also has quoins. The west elevation has two windows: a square window low down near the south end with a stone sill, and a larger four-light window higher up, near the centre, with a long stone lintel. The stonework changes on the west elevation two-thirds of the way up from random strap-pointed to narrower coursed stone. The south gable end is of roughly coursed squared rubble, and the north gable, where visible, uses narrower coursed squared stone with a small high window. A partly blocked entrance with a heavy lintel is visible on the west side of the north gable end, with a later store attached with a lower roof line.

Inside, three crucks support two through purlins on each side, with a housed ridge beam. The southern and central crucks are strengthened by steel tie beams. The southern cruck has a saddle near the ridge beam and wind braces on either side to the upper purlin. The blades are slightly kneed at the level of the lower purlin, with spurs pegged to a stud on the east side and embedded in the stone wall on the west, including one angled upwards. The central cruck, similar to the southern but more strongly kneed, has missing upper spurs and a lower spur embedded in the wall, and its blade base is also embedded. The northern cruck, closest to the north wall, has straighter blades with additional angled spurs on both sides and wind braces on the east side. A blocked window is visible in the north gable wall. A modern brick wall divides the lower half of the southern bay from the rest, creating a hay loft above and former cattle housing below, with the floor in the northern half-bay raised to a higher level.

The contemporary buildings adjacent to the north and east are of no particular architectural interest and are excluded from the listing.