Barn To The North Of Church Farmhouse

This is a barn located to the north of Church Farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 19th centuries. The barn is constructed from regularly coursed squared gritstone and features stepped angle buttresses on the north-west gable. It has a slated roof and stands two storeys high, originally having an overloft at the south-east end. The structure consists of seven bays, which were once marked by shallow stepped buttresses that have since been removed, leaving fragments of their masonry in the side walls.

The north-west gable includes a doorway with a four-centred arch at the centre of the ground floor, flanked by blocked openings. Above this, there are two openings for the upper floor, one above the other, featuring roughly hewn massive jambs and 19th-century glazing. The north-east wall has other four-centred arched openings on the first floor, now hidden by a 20th-century lean-to. The south-west wall has an irregular pattern of later inserted openings at ground level, but retains three original taking-in doors with boarded shutters on the first floor. The south-east gable has a glazed four-centred arched opening on the ground floor and blocked openings on the first floor, alongside an internal shallow chimney breast.

Inside, the barn features a double purlin roof with cambered tie beams and curved wind braces. Some trusses have collars, but those at the north-west end have been modified, with vertical struts supporting the purlin junctions at the collar and yoke level, rising from the tie and collar beams. One truss at the upper end of the barn is closed above the collar with vertical studs and has mortices for studs between the collar and tie beam.