Barn at Hunsdon Lodge Farm Attached to South End of the Big Black Barn

The barn at Hunsdon Lodge Farm, attached to the south end of the Big Black Barn, dates from the 18th century. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, featuring a steep old red tile gabled roof and a gabled projecting porch centrally located on the west side. The barn has opposed double doors and is an unaisled five-bay structure facing west. It includes collar trusses with inclined queen struts, a clasped purlin roof with one purlin on each slope, and long slender curved braces supporting the tie beams. There is a strainer between the purlins at mid-bay and straight diagonal tension braces in the walls. A modern floor has been inserted in the two southern bays. The lower part of the porch interior is weatherboarded, while the barn interior is plastered to the same level. Lean-to stables, which are weatherboarded and slated, flank the west porch. This 18th-century timber-framed barn is little altered and is of special interest, forming part of the group of historic barns at Hunsdon Lodge Farm.