Mays Barn

Mays Barn is a former threshing barn from the 17th century that was converted into a house around 1984. It is timber-framed on brick footings, with the exposed frame at ground floor level nogged with brick and weatherboarded above. The roof is covered with peg tiles and has half-hipped ends.

The barn is located roadside, backing onto the road and facing south-southwest. Originally, it featured full-height opposing doorways onto the threshing floor, which is located to the left of center. The roadside double doorway has been blocked and filled with framing similar to the original design. To the left of the blocked double doorway, there is one ground floor window set in the blocking of a former hatchway. The south side of the barn has three pairs of ground floor windows and four first floor windows, all of which are relatively small 20th-century casements that avoid the old timber frame. The current front doorway is in the blocking of the original double doorway and features a 20th-century part-glazed door. The blocking of the barn doorway is mostly glazed.

Inside, the barn has been largely modernized in the 20th century, but the 17th-century framed structure remains well-preserved. It consists of four bays, with wall posts that have formed jowls, straight arch braces to the tie-beams, and a clasped side purlin roof with queen struts.