Threshing Barn And Attached Building South West Of Hurdon Farm Farmhouse

The threshing barn, dating from the late 18th century and incorporating some 17th-century fragments, is located southwest of Hurdon Farm farmhouse. It features slatestone rubble walls with timber lintels and a steep rag slate roof that is three-quarters hipped. The barn has a rectangular plan and is partly built into a bank at the rear. There is a 19th-century lean-to extension on the right and a lean-to chaff house in front on the left of the horse engine house.

The structure is two storeys high, with an unaltered front except for a buttress towards the right and the lean-to extensions. The front includes a wide threshing doorway and a narrowed loading doorway under a shelter hood supported by six shaped oak brackets towards the left. There are three doorways on the ground floor, plus the lean-to on the right which has a doorway and a small first-floor window. The quoin of the chaff house features inscriptions of the initials of past and present farm workers.

At the rear, there are first-floor doors under a similar hood opposite the front doors, along with a doorway on the left. The left and right-hand doorways are accessed by steps from the centre, with a small ground floor opening between them and ground and first-floor doorways leading to the lean-to. The barn has old ledged doors and a dog kennel towards the left.

Inside, the barn retains its original first-floor structure, featuring pine cross beams and oak joists with stepped joints, original floorboards, and an oak roof structure with alternate tie beams, all with lapped and pegged collars. The horse-engine house retains much of its original timberwork, although some walls were partly replaced with concrete block in the mid-20th century. This barn is part of a well-preserved group of farm buildings at Hurdon Farm.