Boyton End Barn Immediately South Of Boyton End Farmhouse

Boyton End Barn, located immediately south of Boyton End Farmhouse, is an early 16th-century barn constructed with a timber frame and clad in tarred weatherboarding. The barn features a half-hipped roof with gablets, which is covered in corrugated iron. On the east side, the eaves extend over a central cart entrance that has boarded doors, while the west side has a smaller pair of centrally-placed boarded doors. Attached to the north end is a small lean-to stable, dating from the 18th or 19th century, which is also timber framed and weatherboarded.

The interior of the barn consists of five bays and two aisles, with heavy, closely-spaced studding. The end walls are supported by tension braces halved against the outside of the studs. While the studding is largely intact, there has been some rebuilding using 20th-century brick in the north end bay, and much of the lower parts of the external walls have been encased in concrete. A notable feature is the original framing of the east cart entry, and some original wattle and daub infilling survives at the north end.

The barn has jowled arcade posts with mostly intact curved braces to the arcade plates, although two braces are missing out of twenty, and one tie beam is missing out of eight. Each arcade post is connected to the aisle wall with a side tie, supported on a jowled post just below the wallplate. There was originally a down brace from the head of each arcade post to the outer end of the side tie, but all are missing except in the end frames. A parallel brace from the inner end of the side tie to the foot of the aisle wall has some surviving examples. The four arcade posts on the east side rest on original timber sleepers, while those on the opposite side have their bases concealed by concrete.

The barn features a remarkably intact crown post roof that has not been altered since its construction, consisting of four plain crown post trusses with thin curved two-way braces to the collar purlin, and flat-set rafters. This barn is considered unusually intact for its date.