Great Barn At Bursteads 35 Metres North East Of House

The Great Barn at Bursteads, located 35 metres northeast of the house, is a 16th-century barn that serves as a significant example of a large, late medieval, seven-bay aisled barn at the manorial centre of the manor of Chamberlains, also known as Bursteads. The barn features a timber frame and is weatherboarded on a low sill wall. It has a high, steeply pitched roof that is hipped at the west end and quarter-hipped at the east end. Although it is currently covered in corrugated iron, it was thatched when described in 1912.

The barn is supported by heavy jowled arcade posts with long, slightly curved braces connecting to the tie beams, while shorter straight braces connect to the arcade plate. The arcade plate is jointed over each post using a long face-halved and bladed scarf joint. Spur sills connect the feet of the posts to the aisle wall, and there is a curved down brace from each post to this sill, joined slightly below the aisle tie beam. The structure includes heavy collar trusses with slender straight queen struts at the lower angles and a single row of butt purlins that are staggered in height. The barn forms a group with the adjacent house.