Wick Bottom Barn

Wick Bottom Barn is an early to mid-19th century outfield farmyard that includes a barn, beast house, and shelter. The building is constructed from sarsen stone and has a tiled roof. It is arranged around a yard, with the barn featuring nine bays and a through cartway in the seventh bay, along with a secondary entrance to the yard. The south-west gable end was rebuilt in the 20th century to accommodate large machinery. Inside, the barn has collar trusses with raking struts at the base of the wall posts and stub ties at the top plates, with timber-framed and weatherboarded walls raised on high sarsen sills. There are later raking buttresses on the exterior. Attached to the south-west side is a beast house with three bays and a two-bay tallet above, featuring a central entrance and window vents. Opposite this is a five-bay shelter that is open to the yard front, which was also rebuilt in the 20th century. The enclosing south-east side has been demolished. This site is an example of the increasingly rare outfield farm buildings.