Barn And Attached Cowhouse Approximately 30 Metres To East Of Butts Farmhouse

A barn and attached cowhouse, situated approximately 30 metres to the east of Butts Farmhouse, were built in the early 18th century, with an addition in 1755, and a later 18th and 19th-century cowhouse range. The buildings were altered again in the 19th century. They are constructed of rubblestone and timber framing, with weatherboard cladding, and have Welsh slate roofs. The barn and cowhouse form an L-shaped plan, with the barn running east-west and the cowhouse north-south.

The barn is five bays wide; the west bay was added later. It has a single aisle on the north side. A rubblestone plinth is visible, along with a west end wall featuring brick-dressed slit vents and a weatherboard gable. Central cart-entries with double board doors are present, the north-side door in a gabled midstrey. Stable doors are located at the west and east ends of the north side, and a small door is in the east end wall. The roof is hipped at the east end. The barn's interior retains substantial timber framing, including a sole plate, mid rail, and wall plate, with angle braces from posts. Jowelled posts are braced to tie beams; the roof structure includes queen strut trusses, clasped through purlins, coupled rafters, and no ridge-piece, with later added rafters. Mortices in the posts and soffit of the west truss indicate the former position of an end wall. The added bay has a wall-plate inscribed "I.R. Fecit 1755." Stalls are located in the west end.

The cowhouse range was built up from the south (barn) end, with four bays, a side outshut at the north end, and an aisle on the east side. It features a rubblestone plinth and brick dressings. The side outshut has a doorway on the left. Bay 1 was originally a cowhouse with a board stable door on the right to a through passage, bay 2 has a wide board door to the through passage, and bays 3 and 4 are open-fronted, with a post between them on a brick plinth, straight-braced to the wall plate. The roof is half-hipped at the left end. The interior of the cowhouse includes a cobbled floor to the through-passage and stalls for six cows, with wood partitions, mangers with tethering rings, and a feeding rack. Bay 2 has a weatherboard partition wall with a board door into bay 1. Bays 3 and 4 have a continuous wood manger, along the north and east sides, and two queen strut trusses.

The property was in a state of disrepair at the time of inspection. The 19th-century cowhouse fittings are notably well-preserved.