Stables At Stanstead Bury Farm 20 Metres North Of Farmhouse

The stables at Stanstead Bury Farm, located 20 metres north of the farmhouse, are a barn that was converted into a stable and carthouse in the 17th century. Originally from the 16th century, the building was altered in the early 17th century and later shortened at the northern end. An engraving from around 1700 shows the barn with an elaborate northern gable and five dormers in the roof.

This timber-framed, single-aisled barn has been reduced to four and a quarter bays. It features heavy jowled posts raised on individual wooden pads set on short brick piers. There are straight braces to the arcade-plate in the western aisle, which has an edge-halved splice with bridled butts. The roof is a clasped-purlin type with straight wind-braces, and it includes angled queen-strut trusses with diminished principals but no collars. The steep-pitched roof is now covered in slates, and there is an iron vane on the southern gable.

Two bays at the southern end have been converted into a stable, which includes an inserted floor for a loft. The stable has a pavior floor for the stalls, while the passage on the western side retains an old pitched floor made of small pebbles. The 17th-century brick walls of the stable section are interrupted by the main posts, and similar walling is found on the western side of the northern part, which is faced externally with 19th-century brickwork. The northern end has been truncated and clad in weatherboarding, with the eastern face open as a carthouse. There is a door and two windows on the western side of the stable.