Former Threshing Barn With Related Agricultural Buildings About 10 Metres To South-East Of Acton Farmhouse

This is a former threshing barn, now used as a cow house, along with associated agricultural buildings located approximately 10 metres to the south-east of Acton Farmhouse. The barn dates to the late 17th century, with additions made in the mid to late 19th century. It is largely timber-framed and weatherboarded, set on a limestone rubble plinth, with uncoursed limestone rubble additions. The roof is covered in plain tiles, with a hipped roof over the horse engine house and a graded slate roof over the pigsties. The barn has square panels filling the framing. It consists of three main framed bays, with a cartshed and granary to the east, pigsties to the south-west, and a polygonal-ended horse engine house projecting from the central bay to the south. A floor was inserted on the ground floor in the central bay during the 19th century. There are two 19th-century gabled dormers with boarded loft doors on the north side. The north front features a boarded loft door on the first floor, seven stone steps leading to a boarded granary door to the left, two ground floor windows, a boarded door, and two two-leaf boarded doors. The south front has an open-fronted cartshed with a central pier on the right, and three lean-to pigsties on the left. The left-hand gable end has a loft door and a single-storey lean-to. Inside, the horse engine house has a double purlin roof with a truss featuring inclined queen struts. The arrangement of the buildings is particularly noteworthy, especially the way the pigsties are mitred around the south-west corner.