Barn at Wright's Farm

This is a small, late 18th century timber-framed barn, part of a larger, developed farmstead. It originally formed part of a range of buildings along the northern boundary of the farm.

The barn is constructed with a timber frame set upon a low brick plinth, with weatherboard cladding and a plain clay tile roof.

The barn is linear, running north-west to south-east, and has a shallow rear offshut to one bay.

The exterior is weatherboarded. A full-height, centrally positioned double doorway with vertically-boarded doors is on the south-west elevation. To the left of this doorway is a smaller single doorway providing access to the end bay. A small single bay offshut is on the rear elevation towards the south-east end, situated beneath an extension of the main roof slope. Both gable ends have no openings; the north-west end is largely hidden by a 20th century farm building.

Inside, the barn has a four-bay timber frame creating a single, undivided interior space, accessed through the double doorway positioned in the third bay. The bays are defined by substantial posts with jowelled heads, supporting longitudinal wall plates and transverse tie beams. Straight braces connect the posts and tie beams, above which are queen struts and collar beams supporting shallow single purlins and common rafters. The side walls are formed of close-spaced studs, each bay featuring a central post with slender down braces linking staggered mid rails to the jowl posts. The third bay contains a shallow rear offshut with low, close-studded walls. The oversailing wall plate above the offshut is supported by curved braces rising from the flanking jowl posts. The south-east gable is framed like the side walls, but the north-east end appears to be a remnant of an earlier attached timber-framed building, which was later replaced by the present 20th century structure.