The Barn

The Barn is a building designed by architect Harold Falkner, constructed around 1925. It has been created from various timber-framed structures, which are more noticeable from the inside than from the exterior. Inside, there is a galleried hall that leads down red tile steps to a living room with a very high ceiling, open to a timber-framed roof. A tall bay window in the southeast wall reaches almost to the roof, and there is a circular green marble floor along with a four-centred fireplace in the southwest wall.

The entrance side features a low, sloping tile roof with a central half-timbered porch topped by a hipped tile roof. On either side of the door, there are two sets of three-light leaded casements. The wall plates at each end rise higher, creating two hipped tile gables above them, with two circular lunettes in the upper wall areas. A massive brick chimney stack is located above the upper storey on the left side, while an external stone chimney with a panelled brick stack is found on the right gable end.

The garden front is two storeys high with a low, steeply pitched tile roof. In the centre, a splayed bay window with six lights extends upward through both floors, capped by a timber-framed gable. There is weatherboarding in the two bays immediately flanking the centre, with clunch and red brick on either side. The leaded casements include two, three, or single lights. At each end, the clunch wall curves southward to a gazebo featuring an ogee-shaped tile roof. The square gazebo on the west side has a round-headed entrance and a round-headed window on each return wall, with voussoirs and a keystone extending into the roof space. A similarly shaped gazebo at the southeast end has round-headed open entrances on the northeast and southwest sides, and round-headed openings without glazing on the remaining sides. The garden area includes shallow pools, a well-head, and an archway in front of the centre window on the garden side.