Granary 25M South Of St Pauls House

A late 17th or early 18th-century granary, originally located at Grooms Farm in Frith End and re-erected in 2005 south of St Pauls House in Upper Froyle.

The building is constructed of timber frame with timber weatherboards, set on nine staddle stones with some small areas of concrete repair, and covered by a tiled roof with shaped hip tiles.

Externally, the granary is rectangular with a hipped roof. The weatherboarded sides are accessed via an oak door to the north-west. Two large windows stretch from sill beam to wall plate on the north-east and south-west sides; these are replacements for original mullion windows and are now glazed with a hopper at the top and weatherboarding forming a shutter. A third, smaller window comprising three wooden mullions is set in the south-east wall.

The interior reveals timber frame post and truss construction with a single central truss running north-west to south-east. The sill beams are edge set with the narrower face uppermost and jointed to corner posts. Jowlled posts midway along the structure are jointed to the sill beam and bridging beam, positioned below the plank floor. Up braces on the four corner posts and principal jowlled posts are jointed and pegged into the wall plate. Vertical studs at regular intervals run between sill beam and wall plate on each elevation. The jowls are pegged in place. The tie beam, extending from the top of the jowl posts, is supported by arched up-braces mortised into the post and beam underside. Raking struts attach the tie beam to purlins at the roof mid-point and to principal rafters. The north-east and south-west sides each have six principal rafters either side, while the north-west and south-east sides have ten rafters each. Hip and jack rafters form the roof angles.

The granary is thought to date from the late 17th or early 18th century and was formerly at Grooms Farm, Frith End, where it appears on an Estate map of 1781 within the farm complex. It remained in that location as shown on the 1881 Ordnance Survey map, though other original farm buildings were subsequently replaced. The granary was dismantled in 2005 and carefully reconstructed at its present location, with a photographic and drawn record made before relocation. The structure's principal significance lies in its early date and the integrity of its original timber frame, faithfully reassembled following the move.