Barn At Hill Hoath Farm

The barn at Hill Hoath Farm is a 17th-century threshing barn, dated 1712 on a vertical strut on the wallplate, but it incorporates earlier timber from a late medieval structure. It is timber-framed and clad with weatherboarding, some of which is original oak, and it stands on a brick plinth beneath a half-hipped slate roof topped with a weathervane.

The right side features a modern lean-to made of breeze blocks, which is not of special interest, and this side is also covered with modern asbestos sheeting. The barn has central midstreys and consists of five bays. It has an angled queen strut roof with collars in the center of the bays, lacking a ridge piece, and continuous side purlins. The wall frame includes diagonal braces and gunstock jowled posts. Originally, bays four and five were floored over, while the left side has a later floor and inserted brick piers.

Carpenters' marks are present, and the post between bays one and two features a hewn bracket with a barge uprising brace to the underside of the tiebeam, which once supported a crown post. Some rafters retain their bark.