Barn Close

Barn Close is a house and barn that has been converted into a doctor's surgery. It likely dates from the early 17th century, with some earlier elements. The building is constructed from limestone rubble and has a stone slate roof.

The structure is designed in an H-plan, with the right-hand (east) cross-wing extending further forward, while the left-hand cross-wing extends to the rear, incorporating a former barn. It has two storeys with an attic. The windows are rebated and chamfered, featuring mullions and hoods, except for the ground floor windows of the cross-wings. The left-hand cross-wing includes a three-light timber casement window with plain reveals on the ground floor and a three-light window on the first floor. The attic has a single-light window with an elliptical head. The recessed centre features a three-light window on both floors and an attic dormer above. Above the doorway, there is a single-light window with an elliptical head, and the doorway itself is chamfered with a canted head. The right-hand cross-wing has a single-storey 19th-century timber canted bay window on the ground floor, a three-light window on the first floor, and a blocked one-light attic window. There are chimneys to the right of the right-hand cross-wing and at the rear of the centre.

Inside, there are timber-framed internal partitions and chamfered and stopped ceiling beams. The central room on the first floor features a stone fireplace with a canted head. A lower part of a cruck blade protrudes from the west wall of the ground floor room in the west cross-wing. This cruck blade is truncated about a metre above the first floor level, contains two empty mortices, and does not appear to serve any function in the current structure. It is next to a 17th-century truss with a raised tie-beam and raking struts. The rear part of this wing, which was formerly a barn, has interrupted tie-beam trusses with concave sling braces, one of which is inscribed with "AN DO BI RH 1637".