Barn 120 Metres West Of East Newhall Farmhouse

RAMSEY AND PARKESTON RAY LANE TM 23 SW (south-east side)

2/67 Barn 120 metres west of East Newhall Farmhouse

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Barn. C17. Timber framed, weatherboarded, roofed with corrugated asbestos. 5 bays aligned E-W, with midstrey to S. Frame of high quality hardwood, jointed and pegged. Jowled posts, primary straight bracing. Arched braces to straight tiebeams, complete, with scribed carpenter's assembly marks. The wallplate scarfs are of a rare type, face-splayed, each with one through-splayed butt and one undersquinted butt, through-nailed, and arranged over the posts. One tenoned collar to each principal rafter couple, 2 butt-purlins in each pitch of the roof. No ridge. The great doorways at both ends of the threshing bay have been boarded over, and a full-span doorway made at the W end, with double metal doors, for storage of agricultural machinery. A building of unusual structural type, which by its position within 0.5 km of the Stour estuary may indicate continental influence; exceptionally well converted to modern agricultural use.

Listing NGR: TM2117131292