Barn Cottage

Barn Cottage is a building that originally served as a barn, with added oasts, which has been partly converted into a cottage and stables, although all but the stables are now a house. The barn consists of four bays dating from the late 16th century, with a fifth bay added to the north in the mid-18th century. The oasts were constructed in the mid-to-late 18th century, and the two northern bays of the barn were converted into a cottage very late in the 18th century, while the stables were created in the late 19th century.

The structure is timber framed, with the two northern bays tiled with thick bands of plain and fishscale tiles, while the rest is weatherboarded, topped with a plain tile roof. The building features five timber-framed bays that run parallel to the road, with two oasts added at right angles to the rear of the two southern bays.

The front elevation, facing west, is two storeys high, with a hipped roof at the right end that includes a gablet. There is a rear stack at the left end. The tile-hung area has one recessed two-light casement at the right end of the first floor. Off-centre to the right are double barn doors that include two 20th-century square glazed lights, along with a single door with a square glazed light adjacent to the left. Smaller double doors are located on the first floor above the ground-floor double doors. The oast at the rear right end contains stables on the ground floor, with hatches and casements above, and both oasts feature hipped roofs.

Inside, the roofs, beams, and posts are exposed. In the right oast, there is evidence of an internal kiln and a rare survival of part of a stud and plaster partition between the plenum chamber and the unheated part of the oast. The left oast has a unique arrangement of a girder and joists set diagonally. The original barn roof includes clasped purlins with reducing principal rafters, cambered collars, and rare evidence of an unbraced crown strut at the centre of the collar, with no windbraces present.