Barn House

Barn House is a 17th-century building that has been altered in the 1980s to serve as a house. Originally a barn and stable, it is timber framed on red brick sills, with the frame exposed and red brick infill panels, while the rear is roughcast. The stable at the back is made of red brick. The building features steep old red tile roofs and consists of a tall three-bay barn that backs onto the road and faces south into a courtyard. It has a projecting gabled porch in the middle and a lower single-storey former stable extending to the west up to the gatehouse. Architectural details include jowled posts, full-height studs, long straight tension braces, and a clasped-purlin roof with two purlins on each slope supported by two collars at the gables. The house has casement windows, two gabled dormers, and a chimney on the rear roofslope. This building is part of a picturesque courtyard group that includes outbuildings of Ickleford Manor, which suffered a fire in 1911. It is included for its group value.