Barn and stables at Tidbury Green Farm

A threshing barn with attached stable, dating from the first half of the C19.

MATERIALS: red brick with plain clay tile roofs.

PLAN: the barn and stables run N-S, with the slightly narrower stable range to the north. A C20 shed runs at right angles from the E (rear) elevation of the barn.

EXTERIOR: the STABLES are lower than the adjoining barn, the front elevation of two wide bays, with a wide doorway to left and a shuttered window opening to right, each with a rebuilt segmental-arched head with a band of blue brick in the voussoirs. The window opening has been slightly shortened. The rear of the range is blind, and set back behind the line of the barn, forming a narrower range. The BARN to the is a continuous build with the stables, and has large, slightly off-centre threshing doors to both elevations, in segmental-arched openings. The doors are C21 replacements using the earlier strap hinges. The long elevations of the barn have ventilation holes set in a diamond patterns, eight to each side.

INTERIOR: the STABLE was formerly divided into four boxes; the sawn-off remains of the timber dividing posts are still visible in the floor, which is laid with brick setts including a drainage channel. The rear wall retains its timber mangers above a brick plinth. The roof trusses are of king-post form, with single ledged purlins, the king ties in iron. Common rafters meet at a ridge plank. A door leads from the stable to the barn.

The BARN retains its cobbled threshing floor, with a rammed earth floor to its N and concrete to the S. Brick piers extend a short distance into the space to either side of the threshing floor. The northern bay is horizontally divided, and the rest of the building open to the roof. The roof trusses are formed from tie beams and principal rafters which rise only as far as the collar, which is tenoned into upright queen struts, between which sit a single tier of clasped purlins. Common rafters rest on the purlins and meet at a ridge plank.

To the rear of the barn is a single-storey, metal-clad shed of later-C20 date, which is not included in the listing.