The Oak Barn Approximately 35 Metres To North West Of Hound House

The Oak Barn, approximately 35 metres north west of Hound House, comprises two barns of different dates now joined as one building. The earlier barn dates to the 17th century, with a later addition from the 18th century. The barns were relocated to their present site in the 19th century, an outshut was added in the 19th century, and the roof was replaced around 1980. The construction is timber framed on sandstone rubble and brick plinths, with weatherboard cladding and a plain tiled roof. The barn has a three-by-five bay layout, with rear outshuts; the earlier barn is on the right, and the outshut is attached to the left barn.

The north front features plinth walls approximately 1 metre high. A cart entry is located in bay 4 of the earlier barn but is obscured by a 20th-century open shelter, which is not considered to be of special interest. The left barn has a roof that is half-hipped on the left side, and formerly half-hipped at the right end. The rear elevation has opposing cart entries under a hipped roof, flanked by lower-roofed outshuts. The left outshut has a stable door with one window to the left and two to the right. The right outshut is open-fronted, featuring 19th-century jowelled posts set on brick and stone padstones, with bays carrying cambered lintels.

The interior reveals a timber frame consisting of tall rectangular panels, incorporating curved tension braces and straight braces to support queen post and queen strut roofs. Original principal rafters are present, along with some remaining wind braces, although many rafters have been replaced. Between bays 3 and 4, mortices on the underside of the tie beam and collar indicate where the studs of a former end wall were once positioned. Originally, the barns were situated approximately 40 metres to the north east, flanking a lane now a drive. They were moved to their current locations, the later barn sometime between 1813 and 1843 and the earlier between 1843 and 1870.