Ancillary Building 15 Metres North West Of Ferriers Farmhouse

This is an ancillary building, likely a former court house, located 15 metres north-west of Ferriers Farmhouse. It dates from the mid to late 16th century and is constructed with a timber frame, weatherboarded, and features some secondary brick infill. The roof is covered with handmade red clay tiles. The building has six bays oriented approximately east-west and faces south. There is a 19th-century lean-to extension at the eastern end with a corrugated iron roof.

The structure has two storeys with an attic. On the ground floor, there are two garage doors and two plain boarded doors, as well as one door on the first floor, with scattered fenestration that is not original. The western end has a hipped gablet. Originally, the ground floor was divided into three sections of two bays each, open at the eastern end, but it has since been further subdivided. The first floor features one original partition, creating a hall of four bays open to the roof, and a room of two bays at the eastern end with an original ceiling and loft.

The building displays heavy studding, thin straight braces set inside the end walls, jowled posts, and a complete set of cranked braces supporting four cambered tie beams. The floor structure is complete and original in the two eastern bays, while the western bay has been entirely rebuilt. Other areas retain original beams, but the joists have been reset. Some moulded joists, likely from Ferriers Farmhouse, have been reset on edge. The first floor has unglazed windows with grooves in the wallplate for sliding shutters. One northern window retains three diamond mullions, while another has two of three mullions remaining, with sliding shutters still in place. The wallplates feature edge-halved and bridled scarfs, and some original wattle and daub can be found in the northern wall, eastern gable, and first-floor partition. The principal rafters have been reduced for side purlins on high straight collars, and cranked wind-bracing is complete. This building is of exceptional historical interest and, despite significant alterations on the ground floor, has largely remained unaltered above.