Barn At Little Lovetts End Farm To East Of House

This barn, located to the east of the house at Little Lovetts End Farm, dates to the later 17th century. It is a timber-frame structure with a low brick sill and dark weatherboarding, covered by a steep-pitched roof that is now gap-slated. The barn has four bays facing south, with a swept roof to a projecting porch in the second bay from the east, and a rear winnowing door. The structure features bull-nose jowled posts with straight braces to the tie-beams. The roof is constructed with a single purlin to each slope, incorporating inclined straight queen-posts (without collars). Long, curved wind braces extend from each gable end to the purlin. A mid-height rail is tenoned in-line within the walls, and at a higher level in the gable walls. Numbered joints are present throughout, along with squint-butted scarf joints in the wallplates and purlins.