Brick Barn To South West Of Port Farmhouse

This is a brick barn located to the southwest of Port Farmhouse, believed to date from the early 18th century. It features English bond brick walls with a plinth and stepped eaves, topped by a plain tile hipped roof. The barn consists of seven bays, with a central entry that has a wide brick segmental arch at the rear and a hipped porch at the front. There are ventilator slits and two buttresses at the south end. Inside, the barn has king-post roof trusses, similar to those depicted for plain tiles in William Salmon's "Palladio Londiniensis" from 1734, and staggered purlins as shown on the 19th-century Tithe Plan for Chislet Parish.