The Bytack And Attached Barn

The Bytack and attached barn is a farmhouse and barn located in Bucknell, dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with later additions and alterations. The farmhouse is timber framed with plastered wattle and daub infill set on a chamfered rubblestone plinth, and it features uncoursed limestone rubble on the left gable end and the 17th-century addition, which is partially clad in corrugated iron. The roof is slate. Originally a single-cell plan, the farmhouse was extended to the right in the late 17th century, at which time the barn was also added. It is one storey with an attic. The framing is only partially visible, with irregular square panels. There is a boarded door to the far right of the earlier part, with a leaded casement immediately to the left. The house has two 19th-century gabled eaves dormers with cast-iron casements and an integral red brick end stack to the left.

The barn is constructed with a corrugated iron-clad timber frame on a rubblestone plinth, which is higher on the right where the ground drops, and it has a corrugated iron roof. There is a plank door to the far left. Inside the house, the left ground-floor room features a chamfered spine beam and plain joists, with an original stone plinth dividing it from the right room, which also has a chamfered ceiling beam and joists. The left room has a stone-flagged floor and a straight-flight staircase in the rear right corner, along with a large open fireplace that includes a bread oven to the right. The first floor has a single-purlin roof with a central collar and tie beam truss, which was formerly external to the right gable end of the original house. The floor is made of wide boarded oak floorboards, with a step down to the right room.

In the barn, the framing is visible with vertical posts and long straight tension braces to the partitions. It has a single-purlin roof in four bays, with raking struts from tie beams to principal rafters. The floor consists of stone flags in the two left bays and cobblestones in the two right bays. The building was in the process of restoration at the time of the last survey in July 1986.