Barn 30 Metres North West Of Roydon Hall

The barn, located 30 meters north-west of Roydon Hall, dates from the mid-16th century. It features ten bays, with the three southeasternmost bays originally designed as stabling, complete with a loft above. One bay was combined with the barn in the 18th or 19th century. The structure is timber-framed and weatherboarded, topped with a plaintiled roof.

Original doorways at bays five and nine on the south-west side are fitted with sets of four boarded doors from the 19th or 20th century. The building is enhanced by external buttress-shafts with simple capitals, carved on the principal posts, located flanking these openings and at each corner. The barn showcases high-quality close-studding and arched wind-braces.

Its roof is a fine and unusual raised-aisled form, featuring two tiers of queen-posts at each truss. The lower tier includes a pair of queen-posts resting on an arch-braced tie-beam, with the posts being jowled and arch-braced to straight collars and square-set purlins. All main components are chamfered and stopped at intersections. The complexity of the roof structure is due to the barn's unusually wide span, and the rafter feet retain original moulded sprockets. The upper floor above the stable has massive unchamfered joists and is integral with the rest of the building.