Threshing Barn At Rumshed Farm

The threshing barn at Rumshed Farm is a building likely dating from the 18th century. It features a framed construction on a stone sill, clad with weatherboarding, and has a peg-tile roof. There is a concrete block outshut on the southeast side.

The barn is designed with five bays on an east-west axis, featuring opposed full-height doorways to the threshing floor in the center, with the north doorway retaining its original porch. Flanking the north porch are outshuts, one at the east end and another on the south side, east of the door. The south doors were destroyed during the hurricane in 1987.

The barn is a single-storey structure. The roof is gabled at the west end, where it connects to a granary, and hipped at the east end, where it slopes down over the outshut. The south elevation is blind to the left of the threshing doorway, while to the right, the roof slopes down as a catslide over the concrete block outshut, which has a pair of stable doors. The north elevation features a deep porch with a hipped roof at the center, flanked by outshuts with catslide roofs, each containing one door and one window, with one window having shutters.

Inside, the barn has a clasped purlin collar rafter roof with five bays and intermediate birdsmouth ties. Queen struts are positioned above the tie-beam, and concave braces connect the wall posts and tie beams. Some of these braces have been replaced with straight braces, and there is a single tier of upward curving wind braces below the clasped purlins. The wall framing consists of large scantling with convex down braces, one for each bay.

The threshing barn remains in use as a farm building and is part of a cohesive farmstead group with other agricultural buildings and Rumshed Farmhouse. The farm's name changed from St Julian's Farm to Rumshed Farm in 1975. The parish and district boundary runs through the farmhouse, which is partly located in Sevenoaks District.