Barn At Wants End Farm

The barn at Wants End Farm is a 17th-century structure featuring a timber frame on a brick sill, covered in dark weatherboarding, and topped with a steeply pitched tiled roof. This tall barn has three bays and is situated at the rear of the yard, facing south. It includes double doors in the middle bay and a rear outshut under a catslide extension of the main roof. The barn is supported by very heavy jowled posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, and a staggered mid-height rail, with long cranked braces connecting to the tie-beams of the clasped-purlin roof. The wallplates over the posts are joined with face-halved bladed scarf joints. In the 19th century, king-post trusses were added alongside the older trusses to help support part of the roof's load.