Barn At The North West Corner Of The Farmstead At Desning Hall

The barn at the north-west corner of the farmstead at Desning Hall is a Grade II listed structure dating from the late 14th century, with a fragmentary core from the 13th century. It features nine bays, two aisles, and two gabled midstreys. The barn is timber-framed and weatherboarded, with the main roof covered in asbestos sheets and the aisle roofs in corrugated iron. Although it is a substantially built barn, many tie-beam braces and some other structural members were removed in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The original structure includes jowled arcade posts, jowled aisle tie-beams, and passing-braces from the arcade post heads down to the sole plate. It also has straight or slightly curved square-sectioned arcade braces, an arcade plate made of short massive sections with complex splayed scarf joints, and square studding at one-metre intervals, which has been later augmented.

About three bays from the west end, there is a fragmentary core of an earlier barn, which includes straight notched-lap jointed passing-braces (now missing), a pair from the arcade post up to the rafters, and another from the tie-beam down to the external walls. The straight arcade braces are lap jointed to the plate. The roof was completely rebuilt in the 20th century. This barn is associated with the now-vacant moated site of Desning Hall Manor.