The Barracks

The Barracks is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from around 1380 to 1400, with a solar wing added around 1450. It features exposed timber-framing with plaster infilling and numerous carved braces set on a random rubble plinth. The roof is plain tiled and hipped to the left, with an off-ridge stack at the rear right and a large end stack with a projecting brick and rubble breast to the left. To the right, there is a return gabled wing that has a jetty on joists with end brackets over the ground floor. The 16th-century decorated barge boards are cusped and feature a pair of owls moulded under the apex. The building has two storeys with irregular fenestration, including four windows on both floors, featuring mullioned windows, some with original mullions and metal-framed windows in front. A boarded door is slightly off-centre to the left, with an arched entrance and moulded spandrels. There are extensions at the rear, including one behind the solar that was partly added around 1970.

Inside, the ground floor has three 2-centred service arches. The central hall wall posts are moulded, and there is a chamfered fireplace bressumer flanked by a pair of moulded 16th-century doorcases from a demolished house in Leeds, Kent, leading into the parlour. The parlour features a stone 4-centred arched fireplace surround. The roof has collar-purlins with a moulded brown-post on a moulded arch brace over the former hall, and the solar has a moulded crown-post on a moulded arch brace with a 4-centred arched moulded stone fireplace surround.