Barn Immediately West South West Of Gardeners Cottage At Ewell Manor

Barn. Probably of the 18th century. The front and back walls, and the lower portions of the end walls are constructed of Flemish bond brick, while the rest of the timber frame is weatherboarded. It has a thatched roof with half-hipped ends, swept down over the aisles at the front and back. The barn is a 5-bay aisled building with a waggon entry at the front, leading to a threshing floor in the central bay.

At the centre of the front is a cart entrance within a small building with a hipped thatched roof; the upper part is now glazed and the lower part has 20th-century plank doors. The roof slopes down towards the lower brick walls of the aisles on either side of the cart entrance. The rear wall is weatherboarded on the right and brick on the left, with two small doorways in the centre. The south-west end has 20th-century windows in the weatherboarding at the top, and the north-east end has a 20th-century boarded door.

Internally, the roof and timber framing are complete. The end walls are close-studded with tension braces. Aisle posts have large square jowls and straight braces to the tie-beams and aisle plates. The roof structure includes queen-post trusses with collars, common-rafters without a ridge piece, and staggered butt purlins. The aisle posts are supported by large timber sole-plates spanning the aisles, with long curved braces rising from the outer ends to the tops of the aisle posts. The central bay and the two south-west end bays have been lined with match-boarding to create a small theatre or hall, with a stage in the south-west end bay. The site of the former Ewell Manor house, which was demolished, is immediately to the west.