Fastbridge Farm Barn

A former threshing barn, probably erected in the C18 or early C19 but reusing some earlier timbers. The C20 single storey additions on the north-east side are not included in the listing.

MATERIALS: oak timber-framing on a deep brick plinth, clad in weatherboarding with a plain-tiled gabled roof.

PLAN: a rectangular barn of five bays aligned north-west to south-east with a central cart entrance and a projecting cart porch on the north-east side.

EXTERIOR: the south-west side facing the road is weather-boarded. The north-east side has a central gabled and weather-boarded timber-framed cart entrance. There is some old weatherboarding concealed under C20 additions. The north-west and south-east ends are weather-boarded and gable ended.

INTERIOR: the roof is of butt-purlin type with queen struts, with alternate in line and staggered purlins, and rafters with an inserted ridge-piece. The wall-frame is set on a deep brick plinth and has a mid rail and mainly diagonal tension braces to the corners and adjoining the cart entrance, but there are also some curved braces similar to the adjoining farm house. There is some later brick infill at the south-east gable end. The part below mid-rail on the north-west end has some breeze-block infill, a later wooden hatch has been inserted into the upper part of the wall-frame and a later entrance, cutting through the plinth but now blocked, is in the lower part of the wall-frame.

SUBSIDIARY BUILDING: attached at the north-west end is an early-to mid-C19 single-storey cattle shed in red brick in Sussex bond with a plain-tiled hipped roof, latterly in use as a milking parlour.