Farm Out Building To The North West Of Newborough Hall Farm House

This is a farm outbuilding situated to the north-west of Newborough Hall farmhouse. It likely dates to the 17th century, or even earlier, with subsequent additions and alterations in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, though much of the lower framework has been replaced with red brick. It has a Staffordshire blue tile roof. Originally a single-story structure with lofts above, it features five bays. The north-west elevation originally had close studded timber-framed construction, three panels high, defined by principal posts and intermediate posts at half-bay intervals. While the timber framing is now largely absent, fragments survive in the upper part of the north-west side wall, with plastered brick infill and angle bracing between posts and wall plate. The central bay is narrower than the flanking bays, containing a segmentally arched doorway that disrupts the lower rail. To the south-west are two inserted windows below surviving fragments of the original lower frame rail; one is a 2-light casement with 6 panes per light, and the other is a 9-paned fixed light. A blocked inserted opening sits between them. A nearly complete section of timber framing remains in the half-bay at the south-west end. The south-west gable has jowelled corner points, principal rafters, and collar beams, with empty pegholes indicating the former position of frame members. The low-hipped roof leans towards the site of a 19th-century sawmill, formerly water-powered. Inside, a near-complete roof structure remains, with 4 queen strut trusses supporting trenched double purlins and some longitudinal straight bracing to the upper purlins. Transverse bracing connects jowel posts to the tie beam soffits. The central two trusses were previously infilled with additional vertical struts to the centre. The building is located to the south-east of Newborough Hall's moated site, millpond, fishpond, and connecting channels – a scheduled monument (National Monument number 13505). The water supply for the sawmill machinery was drawn from this moat and pond network.