Barn 10 Metres West Of Rochetts Farmhouse

This building is a barn located 10 meters west of Rochetts Farmhouse, dating from the early 16th century to the 17th century. It is timber-framed, weatherboarded, and has a peg-tiled roof. The north elevation features three rectangular sections in line. The eastern end has a half-hipped gable with a gablet, low side walls, an inserted doorway facing the road with a lean-to roof, and a blocked casement window. Above the central doorway, there are two 2-light fixed windows. The central section has a simple roof and a central doorway. The western end has a lean-to roof covering the central section, with a corrugated asbestos roof and a 20th-century boarded door. The lower walls of the central and western sections have some cement block rebuilding. The south elevation includes corn drying apparatus projecting through the central section. The eastern section has two doors, while the western section features a smaller, earlier timber and weatherboarded lean-to beneath a 20th-century roof.

Inside the first section, there are two bays from the early 16th century, featuring an aisled closed central truss with jowled posts that are tension braced down to a binding joist aligned with the aisle ties. This truss was partitioned and has always supported a floor on the western side. There are raking queen struts to the side purlins, which may be an alteration. The wall frame includes both internal arched and tension bracing. The aisled section does not extend westward, where it now butts against the second section. The second section has three bays from the 17th century, with a central midstrey and remnants of a waggon porch to the south. The principal trusses have refined curved braces to the tie-beams, and the roof features joggled butt side purlins with butted rafters and inserted bird-mouthed collars to the purlins. The walls have primary bracing and two face halved and bladed scarf joints. The eastern end was likely a subsidiary farm building with an upper living floor when it was first constructed. This barn is included as a type of small farm building that is at risk of being lost due to conversion and decay. It forms a group with Rochetts Farmhouse.