Barn Immediately West Of Westcot Farmhouse

This barn dates from the late 18th century and is located immediately west of Westcot Farmhouse. It is a 3-bay barn with an aisle on the north side and a central threshing bay featuring opposing cart entrances. The barn has a weatherboarded timber frame resting on a brick plinth; the north wall is rendered in concrete blocks. The gable-ended roof is covered with corrugated asbestos sheets, with a tiled, hipped midstrey at the centre of the north side, which has plank doors. The south side has a central cart entrance with sheet metal double doors. The interior timber frame remains largely complete, with wall and arcade posts featuring jowls and straight braces to the tie-beams. The roof structure includes queen-post trusses with vertical struts to the lower purlin ties, two tiers of clasped purlins, long straight wind-braces, common-rafters with a diagonally-set ridgepiece, and wall framing employing close-studding without rails and with straight tension braces.