Clere House Farm Barns And Cattle Shed

Clere House Farm consists of two adjoining barns and a cattle shed, dating from the 17th century, late 18th century, and approximately late 19th century. The buildings are constructed from weatherboarded timber-frame with roofs that are half-hipped, gable-ended, and hipped, covered in corrugated iron, asbestos sheets, and clay plain tiles. The layout features ranges on three sides of a yard, with the west side open. The 17th-century barn on the east side has four bays and an aisle on its east side, with the north bay possibly being older. At right angles to the south end is a late 18th-century barn with seven bays and an aisle on the south side. To the northwest is a cattle shed from the late 19th century, which has an open south front that is now covered over.

The exterior of the 17th-century barn features a corrugated iron roof that extends over the east aisle. The late 18th-century barn has low eaves over its south aisle and later sheds attached to its west end. The low cattle shed to the northwest has a hipped tile roof.

Inside, the 17th-century barn includes jowled wall and arcade posts with short straight braces to the wall and arcade plates, as well as to the tie-beams. It features queen-post trusses with clasped purlins, straight wind-braces, and intact common-rafter couples. The late 18th-century barn has slightly jowled wall and arcade posts, one of which is carved with the date 1793. It also has straight braces to the arcade plates and tie-beams, queen-strut trusses, and tenoned purlins. The late 19th-century cattle shed contains king-post trusses with short braces to the tie-beams.