The Hop Barn And The Old Barn

YALDING HIGH STREET TQ 6950 (west side) 6/134 The Hop Barn and the Old Barn (formerly 23-5-67 listed under High Street, North Arm, as Court Lodge, The Granary) GV II

Barn, or granary and stables. Left section possibly formerly used as oast house. Now house pair. Right section mid C17, left section later (probably C18). Converted to houses circa 1980. Lower 2/3 of ground floor coursed ragstone to front, possibly earlier than rest of building and without straight-joint. Upper 1/3 of ground floor red and grey brick in Flemish bond to right section, later red and grey brick in English bond to left section. First floor timber framed, clad with tarred weatherboarding to front, rendered to left gable end. Plain tile roof. Right section 3 timber-framed bays. 2 storeys. Roof half-hipped to left, gabled to right. Regular fenestration of 8 small two-light casements, three to right section, five to left. Five small recessed ground-floor casements with segmental heads, set within brick section; two to right section, three to left. Three boarded openings with brick dressings towards left end of stone section. Boarded door in left gable end to The Hop Barn, and rear door to right to The Old Barn. Shallow two-storey rear addition to left, red and grey brick in English bond to ground floor, weatherboarded above, with lean-to plain-tile roof. Rear lean-to to right of centre. Interior: only right section inspected. Gunstock-jowled principal posts. Mortices for first-floor diamond mullion window and tension braces to former left gable end. Rear wall of former left end bay close- studded on first floor, and rear wall of central bay has tension braces. Face-halved wall-plate scarf joint. Cross beams of relatively heavy scantling to ground floor, with chamfered axial beams tenoned in. Roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ6985550158