Stanninghall Farm Barn

The barn, dating from the late 17th century, is built of red brick and knapped flint with asbestos roofs. It is a large, cross-shaped barn arranged around centrally placed north and south porches. The brickwork is random bonded, with a flint or brick plinth and blind arcades with segmental arches, containing vent slits. Clasping pilasters are present, and the porch doors have been infilled but retain oak lintels and double revealed semi-circular brick arches. The south porch features a moulded brick platband above the lintel, a platband above, and a stepped blank panel within the gable, with capitals to the clasping pilasters. The west gable is of knapped flint with three vent slits and a raised blocked opening; the east gable has three blocked vent slits, a hayloft door with a segmental arch in a recessed arched opening, and both gables feature an eaves level platband, tie irons, and an owl hole. Parapet gables have moulded brick kneelers and gable peak finials. Inserted barn doors have been added to either side of the porches. The interior reveals a 14-bay staggered butt purlin roof with 8 tie beams. The estate was owned by Sir Charles Harbord, Surveyor General to Charles II, who died in 1687, and subsequently by his son, William Harbord, Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown in 1682.