Barn At Seven Stars

The Barn at Seven Stars is an 18th-century structure that has undergone some later alterations. It is timber-framed with weather-board cladding and features a red brick plinth and side outshut laid in English bond. The roof is covered with plain clay tiles and has a half-hipped design at the left end and over the midstrey. The barn consists of four bays, with opposed cart-entries located in the second bay. The front entry is situated in a two-bay-deep midstrey, which has a side outshut under a cat-slide roof on its left side, covering the left bay of the barn. The two right bays are also covered by an added outshut under a cat-slide roof. At the left end of the barn, there is a contemporary brick animal house beneath an outshut roof.

Much of the original weatherboard remains, particularly on the original front of the barn and the midstrey. The cart-entrance doors at the front have collapsed, while the rear has been weather-boarded over. There are two doorways and a stable door located on the front right-hand outshut, along with a board hatch on the right gable. The brick outshut features a door at the front and a small wood-framed window on the left side and rear, the latter still having an old wooden shutter.

Inside, the barn retains a complete timber-frame structure, which includes a wall plate, full-height studs interrupted by long raking braces, unjowelled wall-posts with arch braces to tie-beams, curved braces supporting the collars and principal rafters, threaded purlins, a plank ridge, and rafters. Wooden pegs and some iron bolts are used to fix the curved braces to the principal rafters, with some timbers having been renewed. A small strap-hinged board door is located on the right side of the midstrey. The roof structure is similar to that found in the stable attached to the nearby pub. This barn served the former coaching house and is part of a group of buildings that form a former coaching-house complex. It is recognized as a good-quality 18th-century timber-framed barn.