Barn And Attached Complex Of Buildings At Oak Farm

BEAUMONT-CUM-MOZE WIX ROAD TM 12 NE (south-west side) 3/18 Barn and attached complex of buildings at Oak Farm

GV II

Barn and attached complex. Early C19. Mainly red brick in Flemish and English bond, some weatherboarded timber framing, roofed with corrugated asbestos and slate. The barn is aligned N-S, with 2 midstreys to the E, and lean-tos between the midstrey and in the NE angle. From its N end a range extends to the WNW, comprising wagon-lodge, shelter shed and stalls. Further S a range extends W from the barn, having a coach-house with loft over in the middle, and a single-storey wing to each side of it. The barn has a half-hipped gambrel roof of corrugated asbestos. The other buildings have low-pitched hipped roofs of slate. The E elevation of the barn has 2 round windows with cast iron radial tracery, one round-headed window, 3 halved doors, 2 pairs of halved doors and one pair of great doors. The southern half is ceiled and partly lined with matchboarding, having been used as a parish hall. The northern half has an open roof with raking struts from the straight tiebeams to the principal rafters, tenoned collars and clasped purlins in the upper pitch. The WSW range has to the N 4 open bays and 2 pairs of double doors, to the S 2 open bays and 2 halved doors, and is partly weatherboarded. The 2-storey coach-house opens to the S, towards the former farmhouse (now The Oak, item 3/17, q.v.); to the N it has on the first floor 3 partly slatted windows, and on the ground floor 3 halved doors and 3 plain boarded doors. The single-storey wing to the W of it is a shelter shed fully open to the N. The single-storey wing to the E of it comprises stables with 5 halved doors. Built by Guy's Hospital, which owned the farm from 1725 to 1920.

Listing NGR: TM1764025551