Farm Buildings At Bottom Farm

1. SWING GATE LANE (South Side) 839 Farm Buildings at SP 90 NE Bottom Farm 3/240

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1. Farm buildings, N range now in domestic use. C16 barn in W range incorporating an older N bay, C18 traphouse with loft at S end and 2-bay C19 open shed at N end. C19 elevated granary at E end of N range which has C17/C18 parts linked and adapted to domestic use in 1980s. Timber frames on brick sills, dark weatherboarded with steep old red tile roofs. A picturesque L-shaped group of farm buildings to W of house. The 4-bay barn faces W with a gabled projecting porch in the 2nd bay from S and a large winnowing door opposite on E and rear outshuts and stables under catslide roofs. Jowled posts with mid-height rails in-line and unjowled wallposts at mid-bay. Heavy straight braces to tie beams and to wallplates. 2 purlins to each slope of clasped purlin roof, the upper clasped by a collar and the lower by quadrant-curved inclined queen-posts. Older N bay had a single-purlin with wind braces but was altered to 2 butt-purlins. Straight wind braces to lower purlins. Squint-butted scarf joint in wall plate. Old elm boards on rear of barn survive protected by outshuts. Square single-storey C19 granary raised high on 2 parallel brick walls has a pyramidial roof, small window in middle of each side and door central at E reached by ladder. Interior has a central N-S tie-beam with inclined queen-posts to purlin roof with angle rafters bearing on ties across the corners with pegged tenons. Long diagonal braces in walls.

Listing NGR: SP9998806089