Barn At Bury Court Farm

The barn at Bury Court Farm is a structure that dates back to the 17th century and was remodeled around the early 19th century. It features dressed malmstone with red brick dressings and timber-framing, topped with a slate hipped roof.

The barn is a long, eight-bay building that represents an early 19th-century modification of a 17th-century timber-framed aisled barn. The south aisle was replaced by a stone front wall that includes two brick midstreys, while the aisle timbers were re-erected to extend the north aisle of the barn. At either end, there are early 19th-century stables and granaries positioned at right angles to the main barn.

The exterior is one storey high, with a stone south front that features brick dressings. It has two brick hipped midstreys, each with 19th-century plank double doors. The projecting wings on the left and right contain stables and granaries. At the rear, the roof descends to lower eaves of the stone aisle wall, and there are two hipped canopies on braces over cart entrances, also with 19th-century plank double doors.

Inside, the barn boasts large arcade-posts with cut jowls and curved braces supporting the tie-beams and arcade-plates. The tie-beams are cambered and feature raking struts leading to clasped purlins. The common rafters are accompanied by a ridgeboard, and aisle-ties also have raking struts to clasped aisle purlins. The west end bay includes a loft floor, and there are opposing cart-entrances to the threshing bays with threshing floors. The stables have 20th-century stalls. Overall, this is an impressively large early 19th-century barn that evolved from a 17th-century aisled barn.