Threshing Barn At Duddings Farm Approximately 60 Metres North Of Homeacres

A threshing barn, dating to the late 18th century, with a later 18th- to early 19th-century extension to the west and a later store-room addition to the southwest. It is located approximately 60 metres north of Homeacres. The barn is constructed of brown brick with sandstone ashlar dressings to the 19th-century addition, and has a pantile roof. The rectangular plan comprises an original section of 4½ internal bays, with a central through-waggon entrance, extended to 6 bays, with an addition set at a right angle to the southwest corner. The barn is of two-storey height, with three tiers of openings. The south side features a projecting waggon entrance with a 20th-century pair of harr-hung double board doors beneath a timber lintel. The side bays each have three tiers of five breather slits, those to the bottom tier slightly longer, except for the top tier to the left which has a pitching hatch and three slits. Three small blocked inserted openings to the lower left side are associated with a former horse mill. A straight joint marks the extension to the left, which has a pair of breather slits. The north side has a 20th-century altered waggon entrance with truncated projecting brick piers carrying a timber lintel with rebuilt brickwork above. The side bays have six breathers to each tier, with a blocked hatch to the top right. The outline of a former adjoining gabled range is visible to the right, with a straight joint to the extension, which has a blocked inserted door and a pair of breather slits. The east gable end has two lower rows of four slits, a blocked basket-arched door above, flanked by single slits, and three slits to the gable. The west gable end has two rows of three slits, with a pair of slits to the gable. The southwest lean-to addition has a round-chamfered round-headed entrance to the south with a board door beneath a dentilled eaves cornice; the returns have single windows with iron bars, tooled ashlar sills and lintels, and pairs of breather slits above. The interior of the original barn section has main trusses with broad king posts and raking struts to principal rafters, carrying two tiers of bracketed through-purlins, and intermediate collared principal rafters. The west extension has a plain king-post roof with pegged staggered butt-purlins.