Barn at Wright's Farm

A small late C18 timber-framed barn, the surviving component of an extensive evolved farmstead, and formerly part of a range of attached farm buildings forming the northern boundary of the steading.

MATERIALS: timber-framed, the framing set on a low brick plinth, with a weather-board cladding and a plain clay tile roof covering.

PLAN: linear in form, aligned north-west to south-east with a shallow rear offshut to one bay.

EXTERIOR: the barn is weather-boarded externally, with a full-height off-centre double doorway with vertically-boarded doors to the south-west elevation. To the left of this opening is a small single doorway giving access to the end bay of the building. The rear elevation has a small single bay offshut towards the building's south-east end, beneath an extension of the main roof slope. Both gable ends are devoid of openings, the north-west end being largely obscured by an adjacent C20 farm building.

INTERIOR: the barn has a four-bay timber frame forming an undivided single interior space, accessed by means of a the double doorway to the third of the four bays. The bays are defined by substantial posts with jowelled heads which support longitudinal wall plates and transverse tie beams. Straight braces link the posts and tie beams, above which are queen struts and collar beams which clasp shallow single purlins supporting the common rafters. The barn side walls are formed of close-spaced studs, each wall bay with a substantial post to the centre, either side of which are slender down braces linking staggered mid rails to the jowl posts. The third bay incorporates a shallow open rear offshut with low close-studded walls. The wall plate oversailing the opening is supported by curved braces rising from the flanking jowl posts. The south-east gable is framed in the same fashion as the side walls, but the north-east end is formed of what appears to be the overboarded remnant of an earlier attached framed building, subsequently replaced by the present C20 building on the site.