Large Granary At Countess Farm

The large granary at Countess Farm, built in 1772, is now used as a store for seed, fertilizer, and hurdles. It features a timber frame that is weatherboarded and stands on nine by four staddles, reinforced with 20th-century brick piers. The roof is thatched and has five bays, with central doors on opposite sides and an additional sliding door on the west. There are paned timber windows at alternating ends of the bays, and raised platforms by the west doors, although one has been removed. The roof is half hipped. Inside, the walls are lined with horizontal boarding up to a height of 1.3 meters. The structure includes jowled posts with straight braces to the wall plates and straight tie-beams, with the main post inscribed "10/1772." It also features queen struts and a collar, a single tier of purlins with windbraces, and a ridge. The walls have long diagonal braces and bressumers at the gable ends, and the trusses are numbered from the north. This granary is part of an important group of later 18th-century farm buildings at Countess Farm.