Former Barn And Byres About 40 Metres West Of Court Lodge

The former barn and byres, located about 40 meters west of Court Lodge, date from the 17th century or early 18th century and were converted into a pair of houses in 1986. The structure is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a plain tile roof. It features seven timber-framed bays with front and rear aisles. The third bay from the north end has a midstrey. The four southern bays were previously converted to an oast house, which included brick-based kilns in the aisles and lath and straw-daub plenum chambers.

The building is single-storey with a garret, set on a red and grey brick plinth, and has a steeply-pitched gabled roof without dormer windows. The east elevation shows irregular fenestration, with three three-light casements to the south of the porch and none to the north under the eaves. The ground floor has four windows to the south and three to the north. The weatherboarded east porch, which rises from the aisle to the north of center, has a gabled roof that jetties forward on shaped solid-spandrel brackets. A similar porch is found on the west side of the former midstrey. The doorways were added in 1986.

Inside, the building features gunstock-jowled principal posts resting on high brick padstones. The roof has staggered butt purlins, with a continuous purlin in the two southern bays. Raked queen posts support the purlins between the two southern bays, and there are raked queen struts to collars. Intermediate collars are also present, along with virtually straight arch braces to the arcade plate at the south end. The face-halved arcade-plate scarf joints are notable. The kilns are no longer extant.

The former byres, dating from the early 19th century, are single-storey structures running east from the north and south ends of the barn's east side. Each range originally had seven bays but now has six, opening to the yard with posts on padstones. The rear walls are constructed of red and grey brick in Flemish bond, featuring a dentilled brick eaves cornice, and each wall has a boarded door towards the east end. The roofs are plain tiles, hipped to the east.