Walnuts Farm Barn

Threshing barn, later partly adapted for animal use. Probably late C16. Roof structure above tie beam level probably replaced in the C19 and south-east outshot added circa 1900.

MATERIALS: timber-framed, clad in weatherboarding on stone footings, but the south end wall and outshots are of brick in English garden wall bond. Slate roof, gabled to north and hipped to south, possibly thatched originally.

PLAN: four bay barn, probably originally five bays, with a threshing bay in the penultimate bay from the north, with outshots added to north-east, south-east, south and south-west for animal use.

EXTERIOR: the west side has wooden ledged double doors to the cart entrance and there is a stable door to the south-west corner. On the east side the cart doors have been replaced in corrugated iron. The south side brick outshot has round-headed arched openings. Behind this the original south wall retains old weatherboarding.

INTERIOR: oak wall frame of good scantling including jowled bay posts with curved braces onto the tie beams. There is a midrail and good survival of curved braces above this, generally two to each bay, and studs. The south bay of the barn has a later inserted floor and the two curved braces to this truss were replaced as down rather than up braces. The roof structure above the tie beams and wall plates was replaced, probably in the C19, with angled queen struts, purlins, collar beams and rafters with a ridge-piece. The outshots retain some stall partitions and there is a wooden feed rack at the south end.