Barn At Titchener Farm

The barn at Titchener Farm dates from the early 18th century, with an extension added in the early 19th century. It features a weatherboarded timber frame set on an English bond red brick plinth and has a clay plain tile roof with half-hipped ends.

The barn is designed in a three-bay layout with opposing cart entrances leading to a central threshing bay. The early 19th-century extension added one bay at the east end, along with a midstrey on the north front.

On the north front, the midstrey is positioned to the right of the center and includes a jettied weatherboarded gable with full-height plank double doors. The tiled roof extends down on the right over a concrete block outshut, and there is a window on the left with plank shutters. The south front features a full-height cart entrance to the left of the center and has a 20th-century concrete block outbuilding attached to the south wall on the right.

Inside, the barn has jowled posts, some with cut jowls, and short straight braces connecting the posts to the tie-beams and wall-plates. The structure includes tie-beam and collar queen-post trusses with clasped purlins and short straight wind-braces in the central bay. The broad common rafters have been re-set with a ridge-board, and the wall framing consists of long studs without a midrail, with short straight tension-braces at the corners.

This barn is a notable example of a small early 18th-century timber-framed structure.