The Barn Next Home Farm

The Barn Next Home Farm is a barn that has been converted into a house. It dates from the early 17th century and was transformed into a residence in the 1980s. The building features a timber frame resting on a brick sill laid in English bond, and it is clad in dark weatherboarding beneath a steep hipped thatch roof. Originally, the barn faced south and had a projecting porch in the middle; it now faces north as a single-storey house while retaining the barn's structure above the normal height ceiling. The barn consists of a three-bay structure with jowled posts, long curved braces, and a clasped-purlin roof supported by inclined queen-struts. It also includes cambered tie-beams, a face-halved bladed scarf in the wall plate, and straight tension braces in the end walls.