West Barn At Nine Ashes Farm 65 Metres North West Of House

The West Barn at Nine Ashes Farm, located 65 metres northwest of the house, is a barn dating from the late 16th century, likely built for Sir Thomas Forster. This barn features five bays and is a single-aisled structure with a gabled porch that projects from the centre of the south side. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, standing on a low brick plinth. The roof is steeply pitched, covered with old red tiles, and is half-hipped at the west end while gabled at the east end, where it connects to the East Barn.

The aisle roof was raised in the 18th century, but much of the original structure remains intact. The barn has square jowled posts with long curved braces supporting the arcade plate and tie beams. There is tension bracing in the walls above the mid-rails, which are tennoned in line. The spur walls and sills support the arcade posts. A long down brace from a post is halved over the aisle tie beam and extends down to a jowled post in the aisle wall. The roof features slender inclined queen struts and collar trusses with clasped purlins and curved paired wind braces. The front wall plate and rear arcade plate have face-halved bladed scarf joints. This barn is an important example of a 16th-century structure with an unusual form for the area and is part of a picturesque farm group, representing one of several surviving late 16th-century buildings.