Aisled Barn Approximately 50 Metres To South East Of Butts Green Farmhouse

952/0/10049 17-OCT-05

CLAVERING BUTTS GREEN Aisled barn approx. 50 metres to south east of Butts Green Farmhouse

GV II

Barn. Earlier C16 with later alterations. Timber-framed with weatherboarded walls and corrugated iron roof. Three bays with aisles. Inserted double doors to south, roadside, end. The original double doorway to west partly survives but altered. Single doorway to east side alongside the now blocked original door. INTERIOR. The main elements of the timber frame survive with some walling which is of tall panel framing with braces. The frame structure has jowled arcade posts and aisle posts, cranked tiebeams, arcade plates and aisle ties. There are arched braces from the arcade posts to the ties and to the arcade plates and from the aisle posts to the aisle ties. There are also curved shores from the aisle ties to the arcade posts. The original rafters have gone as have the crown posts and the present roof is of gambrel form and C20. However most of the original frame survives and is of high quality and has five edge-halved and bridled or face-halved and bladed scarf joints of various types, which indicate the likely date of the barn to be c.1525-50. This is a small threshing barn of high quality which survives with all the main timbers intact and which forms a good group with the nearby farmhouse, Butts Green Farmhouse (q.v.), though the two are now in separate ownerships.

SOURCE. Anne Padfield, Farm Buildings-Butt Green Farm, 2002.