Tithe Barn At Church Farm And Attached Wall At The Stables

The Tithe Barn at Church Farm, dating from around 1400, is a significant six-bay structure that likely originally had ten bays and two porches. It is built from limestone rubble with squared dressings and features an old plain-tile roof. The front of the barn is supported by deep buttresses, each with two weathered offsets, and there are blocked slits in each bay. The porch, located in the third bay from the right, has a wide entrance with a three-centred stone arch made up of two chamfered orders, supported by buttresses beneath a stone gable that shows traces of a parapet. To the left of the entrance, there is a subsidiary door under a chamfered two-centred stone arch. Additionally, a full-height entrance has been inserted between the buttresses of the second bay from the left. The right gable wall features two buttresses and a weatherboarded gable, while the rear wall retains five buttresses plus a later raking buttress and has a half-hipped roof. The rear wall extends to the left into the garden of The Stables, ending in a buttress of the original left gable wall, and contains three or possibly four blocked slits. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to be aisled with arched windbraces. A sketch of the barn's original form can be found on an estate map from 1701 by the cartographer Joel Gascoyne.