Barn About 15 Metres East Of Summerhill House

This barn, located about 15 metres east of Summerhill House, dates back to the 17th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a corrugated iron roof. The structure consists of four timber-framed bays arranged at right angles to the road, with a midstrey in the third bay from the north end. The north end bay was originally storeyed and separated from the rest of the barn on at least the first floor. The gable end features a jetty supported by solid-spandrel brackets. The roof is gabled with plain bargeboards on the north side. There are full-height double doors on the west side, and a lean-to on the east side that has low double doors and three small paned lights. Another lean-to is present on the south gable end.

A single-storey brick shelter range has been added at right angles to the west side of the north bay. Inside, the barn features gunstock-jowled principal posts and a 20th-century roof above the tie-beam level. The posts and tie beams flanking the midstrey are morticed for arch braces, with the bases of the west posts jowled on the midstrey side, while the east posts are not grooved for infilling on the midstrey side. There is evidence of a floor in the north end bay and an unbraced partition beneath the tie-beam at the south end of this bay. Small windows with pegged cills and shutter grooves are located under the wall-plate on each side of the north bay and on the north gable end, the latter featuring a mullion. Tension braces are present on the north gable end, and arch braces are found on the side walls of the two northern bays. The south end bay and south gable end have concave tension braces. The infilling above the midrail inside the braces of the north bays is made of stave, lath, and daub, flush with the braces on the south. The barn also has a boarded threshing floor.