Barn at Brooklands Farm

Barn. Dated 1745. This timber-framed barn is located at Brooklands Farm. It was built in the mid-18th century. The barn has original plank walls, originally part-overlapped and part-butted, with traces of former bitumen, set upon a plinth of red brick and rubblestone. The exterior is now clad in corrugated iron, and the roof is hipped with corrugated iron. The barn is fully-aisled, with three bays, and features central cart-entries facing each other; the southwest entry originally had a hipped midstrey (a rear entry). The doors are now missing, and the rear cart-entry is covered with corrugated iron. Inside, the timber frame has joweled wall-posts straight-braced to the wall-plate and intermediate wall studs. The arcade posts have square-cut jowels carried by timber plates resting on brick plinths (some of which have been replaced), with straight braces to the arcade plates and tie-beams. The roof has queen-post trusses with collars, with principal rafters reducing above the collars, and rafters, without a ridge piece. One arcade post on the threshing-floor (northeast) is decorated with a scribed geometric pattern including the initials "IF" and the date "1745". The barn retains its original timber frame and plank walls and is a good-quality mid-18th century example.