Barn and outbuilding at the Three Horseshoes Public House

Barn and attached outbuilding at the Three Horseshoes Public House

This barn and outbuilding complex dates probably from the early 18th century, with the outbuilding added slightly later. The southern wall of the barn was rebuilt in 1981.

The barn is constructed of whitewashed and rendered witchert walling over a stone-rubble plinth, with a pitched slate-covered roof. The rebuilt southern wall is probably of rendered brick or concrete block. The outbuilding similarly uses rendered witchert on deep stone-rubble plinths. Both buildings are roofed with slate.

The barn is rectangular with three bays, orientated north-south and located to the south-west of the pub. The outbuilding is a lower, rectangular structure of two bays, orientated east-west and attached to the southern part of the barn's east elevation. The barn has opposed doors in the long sides. The outbuilding has two double-doors in its north elevation.

The west elevation of the barn features an off-centre cart entrance with modern ship-lap panel infill and door, with a timber lintel and ears. Two irregular rows of three narrow slit windows pierce this elevation. The eaves overhang slightly with exposed machine-cut rafter ends. The east elevation has a larger, full-height cart entrance, also with modern ship-lap panel infill and door, and two slit windows. The northern gable end displays three slit windows arranged one-over-two, with narrow bargeboards showing exposed ends of purlins. The southern gable end is blind.

The north elevation of the outbuilding is timber-framed with waney-edge weatherboarding and brick end piers. Two entrances have 20th-century double-doors, those to the west having glazed transoms. The south and east elevations are blind.

Internally, the barn has a 20th-century plasterboard ceiling allowing only the two tie beams to be visible. These are hand-cut with crude chamfers. External evidence of machine-cut rafters and purlins suggests at least partial re-roofing, though the survival of other principal roof members is unknown. Exposed timber lintels remain to both the full-height eastern barn doorway and lower western doorway, both with reinforcing piers projecting into the interior, plastered but possibly of brick construction. The walls are plastered and whitewashed above the exposed stone plinth.

The slit-windows have chamfered reveals with 20th-century interior glazing comprising six-light leaded windows in timber casements with segmental arched frames. Two windows connect through to the western end of the outbuilding. A 21st-century bar counter at the northern end is a modern fitting.

The outbuilding has a king-post roof with raking struts and ridge. Apart from the chamfered tie beam, wall posts, elements of the wall-plates and one or two rafters, the remaining roof is of later machine-cut timber, probably 20th-century in date. The studs to the north wall are also 20th-century. The remaining walls are of exposed witchert. A screen of uneven elm or oak planks attached to the tie beam divides the building in half.

The bar counter and associated cupboards, appliances and preparation surfaces at the north end of the barn are declared not to be of special architectural or historic interest, though works with potential to affect the character of the listed building may still require listed building consent.