Barn And Shippon Approximately 20 Metres To North Of Oakeley Farmhouse

This is a barn and shippon located approximately 20 metres north of Oakeley Farmhouse. The barn dates from the late 17th century and was altered in the mid to late 19th century, while the shippon is from the mid to late 19th century. It features a weatherboarded timber frame set on a coursed limestone rubble plinth, which has a high plinth with red brick dressings beneath the shippon to the south. The roof is made of corrugated asbestos. The structure is one and two storeys tall, comprising eight framed bays, with a large shippon to the south and a barn to the north. There is a carriageway through the third bay from the north. The shippon includes three boarded loft doors and three boarded ground floor doors. Attached to the south is a lower 19th-century cartshed. Inside, the barn has queen-strut end trusses with V-struts above, and a mid- to late 19th-century replacement featuring a sawn king-post truss. The shippon has inclined queen-strut trusses.