Barn With Sheds About 50 Metres West Of Court Lodge

This is a barn, now used as a museum, located about 50 metres west of Court Lodge. It dates from the mid to late 14th century and features a timber frame set on a base of red brick and ragstone, clad with weatherboarding. The roof is plain tiled and hipped. The roadside elevation, which serves as the main entrance, has boarded doors to the right and 20th-century mullioned windows. The eastern elevation, facing the yard, includes two hipped midstreys, some later additions, and a boarded door at the south end.

Inside, the barn has six bays with aisles and terminal outshots, measuring a total of 117 by 31 feet. The two entrance bays are slightly narrower and have wooden threshing floors. The structure includes passing shores, a crown roof braced down to tie beams and up to the collar purlin. The high quality of the timberwork and the barn's largely unaltered internal state make it one of the finest medieval barns in Kent. Attached to the northern end are cowsheds, which form an L-shaped open arcaded timber structure, featuring vertical plank boarding and a tiled roof.