Barn At Rumballs Farm

Barn, dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, with a later bay addition and outshots, now used as a store. It is timber-framed with a weatherboard exterior and a corrugated metal roof. The barn has four bays, with brick outshots on the south side. A cart entrance is in the original central bay, and an open end was created in February 2001 by the removal of a later addition.

The exterior is clad in thickly tarred weatherboard, with a corrugated metal roof half-hipped at both ends. There are double cart doors on the north side. A brick outshot on the south side features a rounded corner and decorative ventilation holes in the brickwork. A plank door leads to the outshot, sharing similar hinges with the east door and cart doors.

Inside, the roof is a queen-post through-purlin structure with curved wind-braces and curved braces to tie beams in the original three bays. The posts are jowled with a gun-stop profile, some of which have been replaced. Curved tension braces are visible at the gable end of the first bay. The second bay features a later cart door, with a wall plate intact to the north and a cut wall plate and rafters indicating the former outshot to the south. The base of the barn is covered in horizontal boards and filled with concrete. Redundant mortises are present in the tie beam of the third bay, and in a tie beam at the open end, which appears to have been re-used. A heavy and staggered mid-rail is present in all bays, with the back of the weatherboarding exposed to the interior. Carpenters’ marks are visible in the original bays, and light scantling peg-jointed rafters are found in those bays.

The barn at Rumballs Farm is now separate from the remaining farm buildings, which include a 19th-century farmhouse, a thatched barn, and a cartshed, all under separate ownership.