Converted Barn About 40 Metres North Of Wat Tyler'S Cottage

This building is a house that was converted from a barn in 1988, located about 40 meters north of Wat Tyler's Cottage. The barn likely dates back to the early 16th century or earlier. It features framed construction on a brick plinth and is clad in weatherboarding with a peg-tile roof.

The barn has a six-bay layout and faces south. The conversion includes opposed doorways in the second bay from the left (west), with a front door on the south side and a glazed section on the north side that illuminates the stairway leading up from the entrance.

The exterior displays an asymmetrical front with eight windows. The roof is hipped at the left end and half-hipped at the right end. To the left of center, there is a 20th-century plank door flanked by two tall windows without glazing bars. Above the front door in the entrance bay are three similar windows. To the extreme right, there are a pair of plank garage doors. The remaining windows are timber casements without glazing bars, matching those on the rear elevation. The building has no stacks or stove pipes.

Inside, the entrance bay reaches the full height of the barn, while the rest of the interior is floored. The original wall-framing is still visible, featuring jowled wall posts. Some timbers were replaced after the building completely collapsed during the hurricane in October 1987.

The roof is constructed with crown posts, featuring plain posts with some having four-way and others three-way braces. There is one tier of curved windbraces made from large scantling.

This conversion is a sympathetic transformation of a notably large early barn and has group value with the adjacent converted oasthouse and Wat Tyler's Cottage.