Kentons Farm, Northern Range Of Outbuilding To South Kentwyns

The northern range of the outbuilding to South Kentwyns is a former barn, later converted to a granary and garage, now used for storage. It dates from the late 16th or early 17th century, with the ground floor underbuilt in the late 18th or 19th century. An attached one-storey brick stable range from the late 19th century is also present, though partly in separate ownership and not of special interest.

The building is rectangular, comprising four bays. The ground floor is constructed of brick, while the upper floor is timber-framed with brick infilling and a half-hipped roof of renewed tiles.

The north-eastern side displays exposed square framing to the first floor with a curved brace at the southern end, infilled with stretcher bond brickwork. The ground floor has two eight-pane early 20th-century fixed-pane casements. The north-western end shows exposed framing to the upper part with a left-side wooden casement window in a pegged architrave, and a 19th-century brick lean-to on the ground floor. The south-eastern end has the upper timber-framed section clad in wooden weatherboarding with a wooden loading door; the ground floor is underbuilt in red brick stretcher bond with a 19th-century wooden casement window and plank door. The south-western side has stretcher bond brickwork at the southern end and early 20th-century folding wooden doors for its former use as a garage. The rafter feet are visible on this side, and the first-floor timberframing is visible internally.

The interior of the ground floor contains a reinforced steel joist spanning the large openings, with wooden tie beams, some renewed. Lath and plaster remains visible on the ceiling of the southern bay. A 20th-century wooden staircase leads to the upper floor. The wall frame features mainly jowled corner posts from the late 16th or early 17th century, though one upright post has a curved 18th-century profile. The roof incorporates queenposts with carpenters' marks and angled ties from the collar beams to the purlins. The rafters remain largely intact, although four have been cut through; some are reused and a ridgepiece is present. A weatherboarded partition runs halfway along the interior, and three square grain bins with wide horizontal boarding survive. The south-western end retains the remains of a wooden hoist mechanism.

A freestanding building on this site appears on the first-edition Ordnance Survey map. By the 1904 revision, an L-wing is shown attached to the south-east, built as stables. In the early 20th century, the ground floor of the earlier north range was adapted for garaging, probably for Henfield Lodge. It has most recently served for storage.

The building demonstrates special interest by retaining a significant proportion of its original timber-framed fabric and has group value with the listed Kentons Farmhouse, to which it originally belonged.