Old Barn At Home Farm

The Old Barn at Home Farm is a barn built between 1484 and 1491, utilizing some timbers that were felled as early as 1312. It features a timber frame with weatherboard cladding and a plain tiled roof, with some later openings added. The barn has three remaining bays out of a possible six, and it was not designed as a threshing barn. Two of the bays are open, while the central bay was originally floored and closed off on both sides, showing evidence of holes for widely spaced staves in the underside of two adjacent tie beams. The wall frame includes jowled tops to the main posts, a midrail, and curved tension braces, although three braces are missing. There is evidence of wattlework in both the upper and lower panels, and one end of the barn is missing. The roof features two crown posts of square section with curved head braces and a collar beam. The suggestion of six bays is supported by the collar purlin having a single scarf over the crown post next to the missing bay, while the scarfs in the wall plates occur after two bays. This barn was constructed concurrently with alterations to the lower end of the aisled hall at Home Farmhouse.