Durkar Hall Farm Barn And Attached Stable

Durkar Hall Farm Barn and attached stable is a barn dating from the mid 16th century and late 17th century. It is constructed of timber framing and brick, topped with a stone slate roof. The west front features a former central cart entry now located in the fourth bay, which has a scarf-jointed lintel with mortice holes and a post to the north that is stop-chamfered on the inner edge, indicating it has been turned. The double boarded doors are flanked by three rectangular ventilators on the left and a curved corner at the north-west angle. On the right, there is a single ventilator and a low attached stone building with a former doorway that has composite jambs and a timber lintel, now blocked to a window with 20th-century brick.

The rear front includes a tall cart entry with chamfered posts featuring run-out stops and a timber lintel with a round-hole socket for har-hung doors. This cart entry is set within an aisle at the arcade-plate position, with brick aisles that break forward. There are two ventilators to the right and a low stone cattle shed at right angles. To the left, there are two larger blocked openings. Attached to the right-hand return wall is a low stable with a brick wall on the east side and an opposing doorway with a timber lintel. A re-used oak tie-beam, likely taken from the barn, is also present.

Inside, the barn has a five-bay double-aisled structure, reduced from its original seven bays. It features three king-post trusses with single angle struts that are straight braced to the ridge. The former closing truss at the north end has three vertical infilling struts on either side of a broad king post. The north bay is a late 17th-century extension, as the arcade-plate stops at this point. All four trusses are supported by oak posts with jowelled heads and curved braces to the tie beams and plate, which stand on padstones. The aisle-ties have principal rafters carrying another purlin on the western side, with ties resting on a deep wall plate that has peg-holes indicating the former position of an outside wall. The eastern aisle appears to have been altered in the 17th century, with the former aisle posts replaced by 17th-century brick pillars.