Barn At Brett Farm

The barn at Brett Farm is a building with attached outbuildings, likely dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of dressed limestone and features a stone slate roof with coped verges on kneelers and saddlestones. The barn has five bays and includes a gabled porch with a segmental-headed opening on the northeast front. To the right of the porch is a lean-to with a segmental-headed doorway that leads down to a cellar, which is now part of a dwelling. On the left side of the porch, there is a lean-to cowshed with planked doors and a double-Roman tiled roof. The left return has a lean-to cowshed that was formerly an open-fronted two-bay cart shed supported by stone piers. The rear, facing southwest, features segmental-headed double doors in the slightly projecting center bay and two slit vents to the right. There is a 20th-century addition attached to the right of the front, which is not of special interest, but there is an unusual cellared lean-to on the right return with vents at the basement level and 20th-century casements on the ground floor. The cellar contains three barrel-vaulted rooms that have been converted into a separate flat. Inside the barn, there are 19th-century king post roof trusses with V struts, and a square niche in the wall of the porch, likely for storing the threshing flail grease, along with counting scratch marks incised in the wall of the porch. This barn is a good example of a 19th-century stone barn.