Farm Buildings At Bottom Farm

Farm buildings at Bottom Farm, now used for domestic purposes, date from the 16th century to the 19th century. The northern range includes a 16th-century barn in the western range that incorporates an older northern bay, an 18th-century traphouse with a loft at the southern end, and a two-bay 19th-century open shed at the northern end. There is also a 19th-century elevated granary at the eastern end of the northern range, which has parts from the 17th and 18th centuries that were linked and adapted for domestic use in the 1980s. The buildings feature timber frames on brick sills, are dark weatherboarded, and have steep old red tile roofs. This picturesque L-shaped group of farm buildings is located to the west of the house.

The four-bay barn faces west and has a gabled projecting porch in the second bay from the south, with a large winnowing door opposite on the east side and rear outshuts and stables under catslide roofs. The barn has jowled posts with mid-height rails in-line and unjowled wall posts at mid-bay. It features heavy straight braces to the tie beams and wall plates, with two purlins on each slope of the clasped purlin roof, the upper clasped by a collar and the lower by quadrant-curved inclined queen-posts. The older northern bay originally had a single-purlin with wind braces but was altered to two butt-purlins, with straight wind braces to the lower purlins. A squint-butted scarf joint is present in the wall plate, and old elm boards on the rear of the barn are preserved by the outshuts.

The square, single-storey 19th-century granary is raised high on two parallel brick walls and features a pyramidal roof, with a small window in the middle of each side and a central door on the east side accessed by a ladder. The interior includes a central north-south tie-beam with inclined queen-posts supporting the purlin roof, angle rafters bearing on ties across the corners, and long diagonal braces in the walls.