Barn, Including Attached Cartshed And Stable, At Holmbush Farm

A threshing barn with attached cartshed and stable, situated at Holmbush Farm. The barn itself dates from around 1600, while the cartshed is early 19th century and the stable was built in 1847, bearing the name "I Dann". The barn is timber framed, originally clad in weatherboarding, much of which has been replaced with corrugated iron. It stands on a brick plinth and has a hipped roof now covered in corrugated iron. A central cart entrance incorporates double doors. Internally, the barn has five bays. The wall frame features a midrail and two curved windbraces to each bay; five remain on one side, five on the other, and two at one end. The other end has lost some of the subsidiary framing. Notable features include jowled upright posts with curved windbraces, an unusual roof construction with twin butt purlins, and raking queen struts supporting the principal rafters. Adjoining the barn to the north is an early 19th-century open-fronted cartshed constructed of brick in a Sussex bond, with some original weatherboarding remaining on the north side of the barn. Attached to the north-east is a stable dated 1847, built partly of sandstone and partly of stretcher bond brickwork. The stable’s interior retains a central stall partition and feeding troughs. The Rape of Hastings Architectural Survey notes that only three other barns in the area share the same distinctive roof construction.