Barn At Boyles Court Farm

Barn. Dated 1774 on the porch rail, with later 19th-century refacing. The barn is timber-framed, with some weatherboarding. It has a rectangular plan. The south front overlooks a courtyard and features two symmetrical waggon porches and a central late 19th-century bell cupola and clock turret topped with a lead dome. The waggon porches have decorative ogee braced studding over two-leaved doors. A 19th-century brick out-shut to the south side has a stable door, a simple three-light window, a waggon porch, an unglazed window opening, a 1930s-style door with a contiguous unglazed window opening, another waggon porch, a three-light window, and a boarded door, reading from east to west. At the rear (north) elevation, the late 19th-century facade is decorated in a Norman Shaw style, intended to be seen from Boyles Court. This elevation is weatherboarded, with a large central window with an arched head under a cornice hood, mullion and transom lights, and 6x5 panes of glazing bars. Flanking this are two similar half-depth windows with key stone decoration, featuring 6x3 panes. There are upper round windows with keystones and four-paned casement windows at each end. Below, a window under a cornice hood is located on the east side with glazing bars, 3x3 panes, while the west glazing has been replaced by three simple vertical panes. The west end elevation is rendered with mock timbering above, with 20th-century double garage doors, and timbering extending into the brick out-shut. A D-shaped window with glazing bars and 5x2 panes is in the gable. The east end is similarly treated, with four casement windows in two pairs, featuring 2x4 panes of glazing bars on the ground floor. The interior has an 18th-century timber frame of softwood, spanning seven bays, with midstreys in bays two and six. The roof is a queen post roof, with joggled side purlins and butted rafters with collars dropped between queen posts and short raking struts from posts to principal rafters. The framing is braced by knees, tenoned and pegged to posts, plates, and tie-beams. Part of the interior is floored at half height. The barn forms a group with the nearby stables.