Barn And Attached Shelter Sheds And Yard Wall

This is a barn with attached shelter sheds and a yard wall, probably dating to the late 18th century, with the byres and yard wall constructed in the early to mid-19th century. The structure is built of flint with brick quoins, vertical strips, lacing courses, and buttresses. The roofs are covered in Welsh slate, though the barn was originally tiled or thatched.

The barn is arranged around a courtyard, with a 6-bay aisled barn forming its north-east side, shelter sheds to the rear and left, and a wall across the front. The north-east elevation of the barn has a cart-entry to the fourth bay featuring a board double door and a hipped roof extending above the eaves; the left bay has a bead-moulded board double door. A yard elevation features a cart-entry with board doors and, at the right end, a board door under a segmental brick arch. The south-east gable has raked buttresses. The yard wall is approximately 2 metres high, has domed brick coping, and includes entrances at the center and on the right.

The shelter sheds are open-fronted, with wooden posts resting on chamfered padstones. The original posts were square with triangular-stopped chamfered arrises, although some have been replaced. They feature hipped roofs.

Inside the barn, jowelled arcade posts rise from brick walls and are braced to the wall plate, arcade plate, and tie beams. The roof comprises curved queen strut trusses, butt purlins, long straight wind braces, old rafters, and a plank ridge piece. An original partition dividing off the end bay consists of a brick and flint plinth wall supporting a weather-boarded timber-framed superstructure. Cart-entry jamb posts have slotted base-posts. Incised graffiti on the arcade posts at the cart-entries dates back to the 1820s.

The shelter sheds have King-post roof trusses with raked struts, where the king-posts are bolted to the tie-beams, clasped purlins, and plank ridge pieces; the rear walls have timber plates, potentially used to support mangers.

The 1808 tithe map shows the enclosure in which the yard is located, but it does not appear on the 1735 tithe map. The buildings were in a dilapidated state when inspected.