Barn Approximately 25 Metres South East Of Highlands Farmhouse, With Attached Stable And Yard Wall

LEATHERHEAD HEADLEY ROAD TQ/15/NE (north side) 3/141

23.11.73 Barn approx. 25 metres south-east of Highlands Farmhouse, with attached stable and yard wall

GV II

Threshing barn, with attached stable and yard wall. c.1800. Timber frame on brick plinth, with weatherboard cladding and red tile roof (slate roof to stable). The barn is rectangular on a north-east/south-west axis, and 3 bays with a porch and outshut on the south-east side; the threshing floor in the 1st bay has opposed wagon entrances (now lacking doors), that at the front covered by a porch with a hipped roof, and to the right of this porch is a continuous outshut under a catslide roof; the north-east end now has 2 vertical openings and a square loading door above; and the interior (of machine-sawn post-and-truss construction) has a roof truss with 2 queen struts, and various wooden partition walls. The stable, a full-height lean-to attached to the south-west end, has 3 stable doors. The yard wall is attached to the left rear corner of the stable, enclosing an oval area approx. 10 metres long beyond that end and returning in a curve to form the boundary between the yard and the entrance drive (the wall on the other side of which is listed under item 3/140 above); it is of flint and brick, approx. 1½ metres high, with some integral piers, finishing courses, and rounded coping all of brick, and has a gateway opposite the stables. This item forms a close functional group with the granary (item 3/142 below).

Listing NGR: TQ1853055888