Barn About 14 Metres West Of The Court House

This is a barn built around 1810, with later alterations and additions, located about 14 metres west of the Court House in Cold Ashton. The structure is made of limestone rubble with stone dressings and features a slate roof with raised coped verges, kneelers, and finials, along with a corrugated iron lean-to on the right side. The barn originally had a cruciform plan.

On the east elevation, there is a central high gabled cart entry framed in stone with a timber lintel, above which is a pigeon-loft door also with a timber lintel and an owl-hole above it. To the left and right, there are lower additions with pitched roofs that fill the L-shape, each featuring a central stable door and a 4-pane fixed light on either side, as well as a small central dormer with ventilation louvres.

The left return has a former loading door with a 20th-century window inserted, two ventilation slits at a lower level, and one in the gable, along with a single-storey addition to the left. The right return has three ventilation slits, a loading door with a timber lintel at the upper level, a blocked former loading door, and a ventilation slit in the gable. The barn displays prominent quoins at each return and stepped stonework under the verges.

At the rear, there is a smaller cart entry with a pitched roof and door, and an addition to the right features a curved wall and door in a plain frame, along with a 6-pane fixed light under the eaves. Inside, the barn has a 7-bay roof supported by principal rafters, two rows of purlins, collars, and a ridge purlin, with a cambered upper collar on the two central trusses, and a heavy timber lintel on the inner side of the west entry.