North Barn At Middle Easthall Farm

The North Barn at Middle Easthall Farm is a 17th-century barn that incorporates two 15th-century tie-beams. It features a timber frame set on an original flint sill wall, with tile packing beneath the sill-beam. The western end has a small brick replacement in English bond. The barn is clad in dark weatherboarding with wainy edges on the north side and has a steeply pitched roof made of corrugated asbestos.

This tall barn consists of three bays and has a central double doorway on the north side, with a gabled projecting porch on the south side facing the yard. Architectural details include jowled posts, long curved braces to the wallplates, cambered tie-beams, and full-height studs. There is a face-halved bladed scarf joint in the wallplate next to the post. The trusses feature collars and a single clasped purlin on each slope, with struts below the collar at the gable ends. The two open trusses flanking the central bay have inclined queen-struts. The eastern truss has a steeply cambered tie-beam with a double hollow chamfer and mortices with three peg-holes for the moulded braces of an open truss typical of a domestic hall. The western truss is similar but has a double plain chamfer and two peg-holes for the brace.