New Barn, Baynards

The building is a barn with attached cow sheds, dating from 1702 with later additions of the late 18th or early 19th century, and 20th-century alterations. It is located within Baynards Park, Cranleigh.

The barn is timber-framed and clad in weatherboarding, with a half-hipped tiled roof. It has five bays, with a central cart entrance to the north, now blocked on the south side. Carved into one of the northern cart entrance door jambs are the date 1702 and the initials of the Onslow family. Internally, the wall frame features a midrail and diagonal tension braces, and the roof is an angled queenpost construction with staggered purlins.

The cow sheds consist of three ranges attached to the barn, forming a covered yard to the east, west, and south. These are one-storey brick structures in a Sussex bond, with hipped roofs to the east and west, half-hipped tiled roofs to the south end of the east and west ranges, and an M-shaped roof to the south end of the central range. The outer walls of the eastern and western ranges have brick modillion cornices, a plinth to the north, and brick pilasters to the east and west. The central range has a blocked-in cambered headed doorcase to the south and some very large handmade bricks blocking a former cart entrance to the barn. The eastern range roof is supported on brick piers with an angled queen strut roof, original rafters and ridgepiece. The central range roof is supported on timber piers and features angled queen struts and a distinctive roof structure above the central walkway. The western range roof was rebuilt in the 20th century with modern gang-nailed roof trusses and modern brick piers, but remains an important part of the overall composition.

The barn was built when the Onslow family owned Baynards estate. Historical records indicate that William Freeman granted a lease to Sir Richard Onslow in 1700, and his son, Thomas Onslow, later the second Lord Onslow, mortgaged the property in 1714. The estate was sold in 1818. The cow sheds formed part of the Baynards estate dairy farm, and the entire complex is depicted on the 1872 Ordnance Survey map.

The barn represents a complete, dated early 18th-century timber-framed structure with attached late 18th/early 19th-century brick and timber-framed cow sheds and a unique roof structure over the central passageway.