Eastern Barn At Church Farm, 50 Metres South East Of Parish Church

The Eastern Barn at Church Farm, located 50 meters southeast of the Parish Church, is a late medieval barn, likely built in the 15th century. It features a cruck frame and has been extended to form an L-plan with a southern range added in three stages during the 17th century. The older eastern range was renovated in the 18th century, with its ends rebuilt. The barn is constructed with a timber frame on low brick sill walls, covered in dark weatherboarding, and topped with steep old red tile roofs.

This five-bay cruck-framed barn faces west into a courtyard and retains four of its original cruck frames. Each truss has a different apex treatment, and there is a heavy diagonally-set ridge timber. The barn has a single purlin on each side, set in the plane of the roofslope, which is trenched through the backs of the crucks and splay-scarfed at each truss, with each part pegged to the cruck. There are lap-dovetail mortices on the north face of each cruck for a collar, which is now missing, along with spur-ties that are lap-jointed to the north face of the cruck and to the wall-post below the wallplate level. Modern timbers have been bolted across as tie-beams, likely due to the removal of the collars.

The barn features long convex curved wind-braces that overlap at the junction with the back of the cruck blade. Each pair of cruck blades consists of matched halves from a single timber. The southernmost pair is joined just below the apex by a small lap-jointed collar, with the blades continuing to butt against the lower faces of the ridge-beam. The next pair to the north rises and crosses with the ridge supported in the crotch, while another has a yoke at the apex with a short post supporting the ridge. The wallplate has squint-butted scarf joints. The western end of the southern range includes a two-bay structure with a butt-purlin roof, diminished principals, and angled straight queen-posts at the middle truss. This cruck barn is one of the most southeastern examples of this construction style and was largely dismantled for reconstruction as a craft shop when last inspected.