Barn With Attached Stable And Shelter Sheds At Garstons Farm

Garstons Farm features a barn with an attached stable and two shelter sheds. The barn likely dates from the early 18th century, incorporating some earlier timbers, with 19th-century additions to the rear and side. The stable is from the early 19th century, while the shelter sheds were built in the mid-19th century. The structure is timber-framed, clad in weatherboard, with rubblestone and brick plinths, and has plain tile roofs.

The barn is a three-bay structure with outshut additions on the right side and rear. The stable, which is lower, is located on the left, and the shelter sheds, also lower, are on the right, consisting of four bays, with a projecting five-bay section to the front left. The barn features a central cart entry with a double board door, a later two-light window and board door to the right, and a later board door with a window above to the left. There is also a board door leading to the outshut. The stable has its own door. The shelter sheds have posts on brick pad-stones with arched braces supporting the eaves plate; the right-hand shelter shed includes later brick infilling and cladding of the posts.

At the rear, the barn has a rubblestone plinth, while the added outshut and stable have brick plinths. The barn features a low opposing cart entry, and the stable has two later windows. On the left side, the shelter shed roof displays decorative 'V' and fishscale tile bands.

Inside the barn, reused jowelled wall posts flank the rear cart entrance, and formerly-jowelled wall posts flank the front cart entry, with other wall posts unjowelled. The barn has large-panelled framing, mostly with later infill studs, and the left-hand wall dates from the 19th century. Braces, mostly arched, connect wall posts to the wall plate and tie-beams, with curved queen struts clasping through the purlins and old rafters. The stable features close-set studs, a collared roof truss, and plank wind braces. The shelter sheds have queen-strut roof trusses clasping through purlins and ridge-pieces.