Bank Barn To North West Of Boswell Farmhouse

The building is a bank barn located to the northwest of Boswell Farmhouse, dating from the early to mid-19th century, and incorporates timbers from an earlier structure. It features weatherboard cladding over a timber frame, with the rear wall constructed of local rubble and a gabled roof made of corrugated iron. The barn is designed with a threshing floor above a ground-floor cattle shed, which is open-fronted and faces south into the yard.

The exterior consists of two storeys, with the south front displaying central plank double doors above the open ground floor, which is divided into five bays by circular stone columns topped with plain abaci. Inside, a similar row of columns backs onto a rear feeding passage. The interior showcases 19th-century timber framing with vertical studs of slight scantling and diagonal braces, including some reused timbers in the flooring. The roof is a five-bay collar-truss design from the late 17th or early 18th century, featuring principal rafters that are tenoned and pegged into thin 19th-century wall posts. This barn is an unusual example of a timber-framed farm building for the region, with its distinctive design of ground-floor columns.