Barn To The South East Of Street Farmhouse

TL 96 NE 4/11 1/10/85

BADWELL ASH THE STREET (NORTH SIDE)

Barn to the south-east of Street Farmhouse (formerly listed as Barn at Street Farm)

II

Barn, formerly a house, or more probably, a guildhall. Late C13/early C16. Timber-framed; part rendered, part weatherboarded; clay pantiles. 3 bays, with an entry and threshing-floor to the middle bay; a later lean-to along the rear. A C20 floor has been inserted at one end, but the remainder of the building seems always to have been open to the roof. The whole frame, of very high quality, is exposed inside: heavy close-studding with a middle rail; ogee bracing in the south end wall, the braces halved to the outer surface of the studs. There are housings for diamond-mullioned windows in the soffit of the wallplates, but the whole interior is now studded. The bays are divided by 2 very fine open trusses with cambered tie-beams supported by solid plank-like arched braces which rest on small moulded and embattled capitals on the main posts. Below the capitals, small square shafts run down the face of the posts. An empty mortice on the top of each tie-beam indicates that there were formerly crown-posts, but the present roof is a late C19 replacement. A cambered tie-beam, similar, but smaller, than those in the other trusses, combined with later studding, indicates that the wall at the north end is later, and that the building originally extended for at least a further bay.

Listing NGR: TL9916969329