Barn And Attached Farm Buildings At Channocks Farm 30 Metres North North West Of House

This is a barn and attached farm buildings located at Channocks Farm, 30 meters north-northwest of the house. The buildings date from 1854, as indicated by a quatrefoil datestone on the south gable of the middle range. The structure is arranged in an E-plan layout, featuring a tall 10-bay timber-framed double barn that runs east-west, with three lower ranges made of white brick extending southward at right angles. These define a horse yard on the west end and a cattle yard on the east. The roofs are gabled and covered with slate, and there is a gabled porch on the south side of the barn that projects into each yard. Each porch has double doors, and there is a corresponding large doorway with sliding doors on the north side. High boarded doors are provided for pitching into the bays flanking these doors. The barn features a queen strut roof with curved knee-braces to the tie beams and a clasped purlin structure. The brick ranges are partly open-fronted to the yards. This group of model farm buildings is associated with John Hodgson's rebuilding on the Gilston Park Estate and may have been designed by his architect, P C Hardwick. It remains a little-altered example of model farm buildings from 1854 and is part of a group that includes the contemporary farmhouse.