Barn 40 Metres North West Of Choppins Hill House

CODDENHAM LOWER road TM 15 NW 5/30 Barn 40 metres north-west - of Choppins Hill House GV II

Barn, C14 with major alterations principally of early C19. 5 bays, 2 aisles. Timber-framed and weatherboarded. Roman pantiled roof. Pairs of boarded barn doors at the centre bay. The south-east arcade and north-east gable are the most complete features. Each open truss has (or had) square-sectioned tie-beam braces and passing-braces, the latter rising from the ailes and being tenoned into the underside of the main tie-beam. The closed truss is similar but has widely-spaced studwork. The surviving arcade-braces have slight reversed (convex) curvature. An original arcade-plate scarf joint is splayed within sallied and under squinted butts. The roof was renewed in C19; it was probably once of coupled-rafter form. The north-west aisle has some C16/C17 framing, but much of the building was remodelled in C19. A rare example, particularly in East Suffolk, of a mediaeval aisled barn; and of further interest because near-contemporary with its farmhouse.

Listing NGR: TM1373755455