Brayburn Farm Barn

TQ 72 SE EWHURST NORTHIAM ROAD

13/707 Brayburn Farm Barn

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Threshing barn. Built in 1833 following an act of arson which destroyed an earlier barn on the site. Red brick laid in English garden wall bond with weatherboarded waggon entrance with double doors and brick ventilation slits. Interior has door openings with principal posts having gearstock jowl sand diagonal struts to tie beam. The half-hipped roof is of collar and side purlin construction with a wind- brace at each end on the north side. The man responsible for setting fire to the earlier barn, a farm labourer called William Goodsell was subsequently hanged and this was a local cause-celebre. See E Austen 'A Tragic Story of Revenge at Ewhurst', the Sussex County Magazine, Vol XIX, No 7, 1945. Rev M Rayner 'Same Account of the Conversion and Death of William Goodsell', East Sussex Record Office, Ewhurst Parish Documents. Daws Diaries Hastings Museum.

Listing NGR: TQ7859922553