White Barn At Brook Farm

The White Barn at Brook Farm is a barn that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 17th century and was transformed into a residence between 1985 and 1986. The structure is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a plain tile roof. It features four timber-framed bays, with aisles at the front, rear, and ends, and it faces west. After conversion, it stands at one and a half storeys. The building has a brick plinth, which was formerly stone on the right side, and a steeply-pitched hipped roof.

Towards the center of the barn, there is a 17th-century porch that rises from the aisle, featuring a hipped plain tile roof that jetties forward without brackets. The front of the porch is glazed with four narrow vertical lights, two on each floor. The barn has an irregular arrangement of windows, including five two-light casements—two to the left of the porch and three to the right. There are also blocked doorways at each end, indicated by vertical weatherboarding, and a broad boarded door located to the right of the porch, which was in place before 1985.

To the right, there is a single-storey weatherboarded addition with a gabled right end. On the left, a former byre now serves as a single-storey rear wing, originally open to the yard with braced posts, and is now also weatherboarded. Inside, the barn features exposed framing, with gunstock jowls on the principal posts, arch-braced arcade plates, and tie-beams. The arcade plates extend beyond the right end truss and are arch-braced from the principal posts of that truss. A tie-beam, otherwise unsupported, is tenoned between the right ends of the arcade plates. The roof has staggered butt purlins with collars but lacks queen struts, and it includes re-used rafters from a lapped-collar roof. The face-halved arcade-plate scarf joint and the tie-beams of the midstrey bay continue to form the wall-plates of the porch.