Barn And Cart Shed About 20 Yards South Of Fair Oak Farmhouse

This building is a barn and cart shed located about 20 yards south of Fair Oak Farmhouse. It likely has origins from the 16th century and was enlarged in the 18th and again in the 19th century. The structure is made of thinly coursed rubble with a timber frame and weatherboards, topped with a slate roof and featuring an end stack to the north. It consists of five bays aligned north to south, with a gabled late 19th-century projection at right angles to the west of the second bay from the north. The former house occupies the two northernmost bays and has a gable access plan, while the southern part serves as a cart shed with a loft above.

The east elevation displays rubble on the two left-hand bays and weatherboards on the three right-hand bays, with rubble gable ends. There is a small 18th-century three-light wooden mullioned window to the west of the end stack. An entrance is located east of the stack, featuring a pegged door frame with run-out stop chamfers that extend about two-thirds of the lengths of the jambs and lintel. There is a second entrance on the south gable leading into the cart shed.

Inside, the former house section includes a large fireplace with a straight-cut stop chamfered oak lintel. Two large longitudinal ceiling beams also feature stop chamfers. The northernmost truss has a sawn-off tie and a 16th-century thickened collar that is cambered on both the top and bottom. The house part is separated from the rest of the structure by a framed partition with a queen strut truss, while the remaining trusses have raking struts.