The Barn

The Barn is a 17th-century barn that has been converted into a house. The conversion was carried out by Robert Weir Schultz around 1903, with later extensions added. The structure features a timber frame set on a red brick plinth and is weather-boarded. It has a plain tiled roof that is half-hipped to the left, with a projecting wing to the right. There are brick stacks on both the left wing and the projecting left-hand wing. The building includes three gabled semi-dormers on the left and one in the re-entrant angle of the right-hand wing. The entrance is located at the right end of the left wing, featuring a door with margin-light half-glazing, flanked by windows and topped with a flat hood arch on brackets.

The garden front has a gabled cross-wing to the left and a verandah along the left side of the wing. Robert Weir Schultz lived in The Barn until his death in 1951, and the interior contains many Arts and Crafts style elements designed by him, his colleagues, and friends. He also designed the large seven-acre garden, which is not listed. A complete set of drawings, photographs, and correspondence related to the house remains on the property, which is still in his family. The Barn exemplifies the understated cottage style typical of devoted Arts and Crafts architects, similar to Hattley Heath Cottage, which was extended by Ernest Newton in the same district.