Farm Building To West Of Abbey Farm Cottage

This is a mid-15th century outbuilding, originally part of Thetford Priory and now used as a store. The western three bays are timber-framed and weatherboarded, with the rear (south) side originally having a jettied upper floor. Around the middle of the 19th century, the south side was partly faced with flint rubble and brick dressings. The rest of the building, to the east, is later 15th century and was entirely rebuilt in the 19th century using flint and brick. It has a corrugated asbestos roof. There are two storeys. The north front has three late 20th-century casement windows and three 20th-century doors. Below five louvred first-floor windows are four honeycomb ventilation panels. The rear (south) elevation is similar but less affected by 20th-century window replacements. The roof is gabled. Inside, the building has a timber frame, with a principal room on the first floor. The southern wall has jowled studs with mortices for soffit bracing along the original jetty every fourth stud; shutter grooves show where three mullioned windows once stood. The first floor has two crown posts of a square section, with moulded capitals and bases. Arched braces connect to the crown purlin and collar. An extra arched brace from the tie beam is morticed into the collar brace. The later four-bay extension to the east has a crown post roof. This roof uses reused posts with arched braces to the crown purlins only, and arched braces from tie beams to wall posts. Two of the crown posts and ties have evidence of where they have been partially chopped away.