East Wantley Barn

This is a former threshing barn, part of East Wantley farm, built around the latter half of the 17th century. A later coach or cart house wing was added in the late 19th or early 20th century, and the barn was converted into a dwelling in 2007.

The barn is constructed on an east-west axis with an L-shaped footprint, including an outshut on the north elevation, and has five bays. The barn's timber frame is filled with brick panels, standing on a stone and brick plinth, with partial weatherboarding and a tile roof. The coach or cart house wing is brick-built in a Flemish bond pattern, with a slate roof.

The two-storey barn has a half-hipped tile roof. The walls are timber-framed with brick infill panels set on a brick and stone plinth and are partially clad in waney-edge weatherboarding. Windows and doors all date to the early 21st century. Large openings are centrally located on the north and south elevations, likely marking the original locations of threshing doors. One opening on the north side has been infilled with a glazed, timber-framed entrance, while the southern opening has a pitched-roof, two-storey glazed timber-frame porch. A lean-to with a catslide roof is at the west end of the north elevation. Attached at the east end is the late 19th or early 20th century coach house wing, which has a single-story design, brick construction, and a slate, pitched roof. Brickwork and windows on the east side of this wing also date to the early 21st century. The north gable end contains a large former opening that has been infilled with early 21st-century brickwork and windows.

The 2007 conversion subdivided the barn’s internal space. The east end remains open to the roof, whereas the west end includes partitions and a mezzanine level with modern finishes such as plaster, skirting, and flooring. Much of the original timber-frame construction remains exposed, including principal gunstock-jowled posts supporting wall plates and tie beams, reinforced by arched braces. The wall frame retains studding, sill beams, mid rails, and straight wind braces. The building has a raked queen-post roof with staggered butt purlins, with some carpenter’s marks visible on the timbers. A modern doorway at the top of steps in the east end of the barn leads to the converted coach house wing, now a kitchen, where most visible fabric dates to the 2007 conversion, with the exception of the exposed timber of the queen strut roof.