2 Adjoining Barns Next The Road At Avenue Farm

There are two adjoining barns located next to the road at Avenue Farm, dating from the 17th century. The northern barn was built first and features a timber frame resting on a tall sill made of narrow red bricks. The barns are covered in dark weatherboarding, with red brick infill visible in the western half of the northern barn's north wall and in the lower part of the eastern side of the western barn. The southern gable of the western barn is also cased in red brick. Originally thatched, the steeply pitched roofs are now covered with corrugated iron, except for the projecting eastern porch of the western barn, which has old red tiles, and the slate rear slope of the same barn.

The two tall barns are positioned at right angles to each other, enclosing a yard to the southeast. The northern barn has five bays and backs onto the road, showing signs of a recently demolished gabled southern porch in the second bay from the east. The four-bay western barn extends south from the western part of the southern wall of the northern barn, facing east. It features a gabled projecting porch with a dovecote in the jettied gable triangle of the second bay from the south, flanked by lean-to extensions.

Architectural details include step-jowled posts, mid-height rails aligned, long straight tension braces to the rail, long straight braces to the tie-beams, and two purlins on each roof slope, with the upper purlin clasped by a high collar. Short inclined angle struts support the lower butt-purlins, and the wallplate is joined with face-halved bladed scarf joints.