The Essex Barn At Hunsdon Lodge Farm 3 Metres North East Of The Big Black Barn

TL 41 SW HUNSDON DRURY LANE (east end)

2/3 The Essex Barn at Hunsdon Lodge Farm 14.4.83 3 metres NE of the Big Black Barn

GV II

Barn. C18, roof rebuilt in early C19. Timberframed and weatherboarded with a slated gabled roof. A 6-bay unaisled barn facing S, with a projecting gabled porch off-centre to W flanked by weatherboarded and slated lean-to terminating in a low gabled cross wing near the E corner. Opposed double doors and high boarded doors in the N side. continuous ventilation slot above b lean-to to E of porch. Unjowled posts with rails tennoned in line and long curved braces to the tie beams. A post central to each gable end. A good example of a late timber framed barn, specifically designed for its purpose. The lean-to parts on the S are probably original. A long shelter shed, formerly extended S from the E end of the S side. Part of the picturesque group of tarred weatherboarded barns at Hunsdon Lodge Farm.

Listing NGR: TL4245414366