Barn At Litle Hyde Hall Farm, On East Of Entrance

1. 5253 TL 504 152:5/1 II Late C16. High steep-roofed gabled, weatherboarded, timberframed, 6-bay barn. 1-bay stable extension to N of same height. Central projecting gabled porch with small recessed outshuts to sides. Low brick plinth in English bond. Remarkably low height of walls. Framed clasped purlin roof with collars and diminished principals. 1 purlin to each slope with evidence for windbraces in each bay. Long curved braces from heavily jowled posts to low tie beams. Queen struts added. Original heavy wall studs with edge holes and slots for wattle infill. Central rear winnowing door flanked by posts and tension braces. Asbestos sheet roof but irregular battens indicate thatch formerly. Porch roof and that of southern 5-bays reconstructed, the latter with diagonal corner ties and wrought iron brackets from posts to tie-beams. Interior of walls of this part also weatherboarded. A survivor of a medieval type of barn where storage is mainly in the roof.

Listing NGR: TL5048315209