Tithe Barn Approximately 30 Metres South Of Manor Farmhouse

The Tithe Barn, located approximately 30 meters south of Manor Farmhouse, is a historic structure likely built around 1400 for New College, Oxford. It is constructed from limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a Stonesfield-slate roof. The barn has a nine-bay plan, with porches at bays 3 and 7 and low opposing doors at the rear. The walls rise from a chamfered plinth and are supported by stepped buttresses that delineate the bays and are also found at the center of the gable walls. The front angle buttresses are set diagonally, while the rear buttresses are aligned. The barn includes numerous scattered square vents and three tall slits in the gable walls. Both main gables have stone parapets, whereas the porch gables are weatherboarded.

Inside, the slits are deeply splayed beneath shallow chamfered rear arches. The roof trusses are of raised-cruck form, featuring paired heavy curved principals that are morticed into an apex saddle, along with two collars and solid curved braces below the lower collar. The two rows of purlins are trenched into the backs of the principals, and a ridge piece is supported by the saddles. Several curved windbraces, originally arranged in two rows, remain, as do many old rafters. The roof structure and some masonry details are similar to those of the Tithe Barn at Swalcliffe, which was also built for New College around the same time. The barn is scheduled as an Ancient Monument.