Farm Building To The North West Of Burge End Farmhouse

This is a farm outbuilding located to the north-west of Burge End Farmhouse, dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building features a weather-boarded timber frame set on a low brick sill, with sections of brick walling at the south end and a corrugated metal roof. It is a six-bay structure aligned north-south, with an added lean-to on the east side, which may have replaced an earlier structure. The enclosed wall of the lean-to has panels with wattle and plaster infill. Inside, boarded partitions separate the two central bays from the two-bay sections at the north and south ends. The frame includes jowled wall posts and unjowled mid-bay posts, with substantial studs interrupted by mid rails and tension bracing.

The east side wall originally had a double doorway at the center, which is now partially infilled, and there are aligned doorways at the south end leading from the lean-to into the barn. The posts within the lean-to have empty mortices on their east faces. The roof structure is of the single clasped purlin type, featuring four queen-strut roof trusses, including one at the north gable, all with braces to the wall posts. The wall posts are straight, except for those associated with truss four, which are curved. Trusses two, six, and seven have collar beams and vertical studs infilling the truss apex. Truss six contains fragments of plastered wattle infill, while truss five has a severed tie beam and a replacement truss introduced behind it. The south-east gable has down-braces from the jowl posts to the mid-rail, and there is a taking-in door on the south gable and a doorway in the north gable. This multi-phase timber-framed building is largely intact and is an important part of the farmstead group that includes Burge End Farmhouse.