Barn About 20 Yards North West Of Upper House Farmhouse

Barn. Possibly dating from the 16th century, with later additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. The barn is timber-framed and constructed with sandstone rubble, weatherboards, and Welsh slate roofs. It has an L-shaped layout, consisting of a five-bay barn aligned north to south, with a two-bay extension returning eastwards for four bays. The east elevation features a large, hipped, projecting cart entry in the central bay, 19th-century cow cot lean-to extensions on either side, a half-hipped roof to the left end, and a taller barn extension to the right. This extension has corrugated iron double-leaved doors leading to a second threshing floor, a gable front, and a gable-top opening. The interior of the original five-bay section contains four pairs of cruck blades with ties, spurs, and collars, and brick nogging. The timber-framed west wall incorporates tension braces and two panels from the plinth to the wall-plate. The trusses in the north section have raking struts from the ties to the principals. This is an unusually complete example of a cruck barn, altered later to include a large porch to the threshing floor and extended.