Symonds Butchers Barns

Symonds Butchers Barns are a pair of barns that have been converted for light industrial use. They date from the 14th and 16th centuries and are constructed with a timber frame, featuring black boarding and a gabled peg tile roof. The buildings form an 'L' shaped complex, which includes a former two-storey granary that has remnants of diamond mullioned windows on the road side. The east side of the granary is partly made of red brick, which continues on the northern side. The main barn consists of seven bays, with aisles on both sides and two large midstreys that have jettied gables on the west side. It incorporates reused 14th-century components, including large jowled posts, a simple crown post roof with longitudinal bracing, and mortices indicating the presence of a former first floor. This barn is likely a former monastic granary that was relocated from a priory site following the Dissolution.