Sharnfold Farm Cartshed

This is a late 18th to early 19th century cartshed, with a later 19th-century extension to the south-east that originally served as a stable.

The cartshed is built primarily of coursed flint with a clay-tiled, timber roof. The extension is of mixed-stock brick under a slate-tile roof. The structure runs north-west to south-east, with the final two bays timber-boarded to create store rooms. The extension, running south-west, is a separate store room, previously used as a stable.

The north-east elevation of the cartshed is largely open, consisting of ten bays supported by square-cut timber posts resting on pyramidal stone pads, with diagonal struts (some missing) at the base. Short, straight braces provide longitudinal support to a double wall plate, and the posts are tenoned into both wall plates. The roof is pitched and tiled, with a gable end to the north-west and a hip to the south-east. The south-west (rear) elevation features a flint wall with brick buttresses, a central opening with a vestigial timber door. The south-east end elevation also has a brick buttress, with informal brick quoins on the right and stone quoins to the left. The north-west end has a coursed flint elevation with brick banding, brick and stone quoins, and a high-set casement window.

The 19th-century extension has a south-east facing elevation built of brick in a Sussex bond, with side and rear elevations in English bond. It features a planked stable door with strap hinges, a multi-paned casement window within a segmental brick arch, and a 20th-century planked door. The roof is hipped to the west and covered in slate tiles, with a red clay ridge.

Internally, the cartshed roof features square-cut timbers, with each bay having a cross tie beam tenoned and strapped into the wall plate, and supported by a straight brace. Collars support continuous purlins; most joints are pegged, and rafters are pegged where they join at the apex, with no ridge piece. The timber-planked entrance doors to the store rooms at either end appear to be 20th century, and the floor is packed earth. The 19th-century extension has a machine-cut timber roof with tie beams, fan struts, a collar, continuous purlins bracing the common rafters, a ridge piece, and two inserted 20th-century roof lights. The brick walls remain exposed and the floor is concrete.