Waxham Great Barn

Waxham Great Barn is a barn built around 1570, constructed from flint with brick dressings and some re-used ashlar. It features a thatched roof and diagonal stepped buttresses at the corners, which are likely re-used from ecclesiastical buildings. The north and south sides originally had two stepped flint and ashlar buttresses. The north side has three timber double doors under segmental arches, arranged symmetrically, with one 16th-century buttress surviving to the left of center. There are also six additional 18th-century sloping brick buttresses. The barn has eight loop ventilation lights with brick surrounds, although some have been blocked or removed, and the entire elevation displays a brick diaper patterning.

The south side features three opposing double doors raised to full height with ashlar quoins, and there are thirteen loop ventilation lights, some in fragmentary condition. The east side shows many brick repairs, particularly towards the east, and later outbuildings obscure some details. The west gable end has brick diapering that is becoming broken and fragmentary at the gable head, with five loop ventilation lights, some now blocked, and four additional ventilation lights in the gable head. The east gable end also has five loop ventilation lights and remnants of one in the gable head, with brick diapering surviving only at the gable head.

Inside, the ventilation lights are splayed, and the roof consists of 19 bays with alternately hammerbeam and queen strut trusses, where the hammerbeams have been sawn off at the ties. Most hammerposts are missing or temporarily replaced, and the hammerbeams and ties feature arched braces that drop to wall posts. Queen struts extend from tie beams to principal rafters, with three tiers of butt purlins and collars supported by arched braces. There is curved windbracing below the top tier of purlins, and the interior is partitioned by a brick wall towards the west end.