Spaldings Barn

Spaldings Barn is a house built in three sections, dating from the early 16th century or possibly the 15th century, with a mid-17th century parlour block on the left and a mid-17th century service cross-wing on the right. The central block is one storey with attics, while the other sections are two storeys. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof that features a gabled casement dormer at the centre. There are axial and two gable chimneys with 19th-century shafts made of painted red brick. The windows include 19th and 20th-century small-pane casements, as well as several exposed and glazed 17th-century diamond-mullioned windows. The entrance door is boarded and dates from the 19th or 20th century. Inside, the central range displays studwork with arch wind-bracing characteristic of the 16th century and appears to have a 17th-century inserted first floor, although the roof structure is inaccessible. The parlour block contains a lintelled open fireplace, with first-floor joists set on edge and a butt-purlin roof. The cross-wing shares similar features, but its floor joists are laid flat and it has a lintelled open fireplace in the rear gable.