Downingbury Farm Barn

Downingbury Farm Barn is a former barn, now being converted into two houses as of February 1989. It likely dates from the 17th century with an extension from the 18th century. The barn features a weatherboarded timber frame resting on brick footings and has a peg-tile roof.

The barn originally faced east-southeast and had large opposing central doorways leading to the threshing floor, although the left doorway is now left of center due to the barn being nearly doubled in length with the 18th-century extension on the north end. If the extension had its own threshing floor, the doorways to it are now blocked. The interior was originally open to the roof, but a first floor is being added. There is a lean-to outshot on the south end, and a 19th-century cartshed projects forward from the center.

The exterior has an irregular three-window front with casements that lack glazing bars, all added in late 1988 or early 1989. There are two front doorways; the left one is set in the recessed blocking of the full-height threshing floor doorway, with a tier of windows above at first floor level. The right doorway is in a recessed porch, and both contain plain 20th-century doors. The main roof has an uneven ridge and is half-hipped to the right. It was originally half-hipped to the left but has been altered to hip down over the outshot. The rear features similar 20th-century windows.

Inside, the 17th-century and 18th-century framed structure is preserved. The 17th-century timbers include large scantling and curving tension braces above the middle rail, with wall posts that have jowled heads and arch-braced tie-beams. The roof structure above was replaced in the late 19th or early 20th century. The 18th-century section is more complete, featuring a clasped side purlin roof construction.

Downingbury Farm Barn forms a good group with the nearby Downingbury Farm Oast and the early 18th-century Downingbury Farmhouse.