Barn At Pirton Cottage To North East Of Gatehouse

This is a barn located at Pirton Cottage, to the northeast of the Gatehouse, dating from the late 16th century. The roof structure has been renewed, and the year '1847' is carved on a tie-beam. The barn features a timber frame set on a brick sill, is dark weatherboarded, and has a steeply pitched roof covered with composition tiles. It is a tall barn with seven bays, featuring double doors in the second bay from each end, and there is a 19th-century one bay extension at the west. The barn has jowled posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, and a mid-height rail that is jointed in-line, with straight and S-curved tension braces positioned above the rail. The wallplates have edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts and large face pegs. There are straight braces supporting the tie-beams, and the roof trusses are 19th-century queen-post timber trusses.