Large Barn At Countess Farm

The large barn at Countess Farm, dating from the later 18th century, is currently used as a farm equipment store. It features a timber frame set on brick sills, is weatherboarded, and has a plain tiled roof. The barn consists of seven bays, with a central cartway and a midstrey on the south side. Lean-to sheds have been added to either side and to the east gable end, and there are irregular paned windows. The west gable has 20th-century machinery access doors.

Inside, the barn has jowled posts with straight braces connecting to the wall plate, as well as straight chamfered tie-beams. The roof structure includes queen struts and a collar, a single tier of purlins with wind braces, and horizontal struts between the purlins at the mid-bay point. There are no wall bressumers, and the trusses are numbered from the west, marked on the north side. The roof is half hipped. Graffiti on one of the wall posts includes the inscriptions: TS 178(?)1, WF 1796, WT 1822, and 1842. This barn is part of an important group of later 18th-century farm buildings at Countess Farm.