The Barn

The Barn is a house, likely originating in the 16th century, and significantly refurbished in the 17th century. An 18th-century cider house was added, with further modernization occurring in the mid-20th century. The construction is primarily plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with some English bond brickwork in the cider house. The stacks are of stone rubble, including one 17th-century stone chimney shaft topped with 20th-century brick, and another disused. The roof is thatched.

The house follows a 3-room-and-through-passage plan, facing south-east onto Ottery Road. The original inner room is at the north-eastern end. It has a disused end stack, while the hall has a large projecting lateral stack at the front, and the large service end room has a rear lateral stack. A newel stair turret projects to the rear at the upper end of the hall. A service wing, formerly a cider house, projects at right angles to the rear of the left end, with a carriageway through adjacent to the house.

The front has an irregular 4-window arrangement of late 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The front passage doorway is centrally located and features a 20th-century plank door with a window. The hall stack to the right of the door is built of brown conglomerate sandstone with roughly dressed quoins, a Beerstone ashlar chamfered plinth, and weathered offsets. It is topped by the original 17th-century double chimney shaft with Beerstone quoins and soffit-moulded coping, with eaves rising to a gable behind the stack. The roof is half-hipped at each end. The rear left corner is rounded into the carriageway.

The interior largely reflects 20th-century modernization, but the original plan remains. Early carpentry likely survives in the crosswalls. The service end room has no exposed beams; the fireplace is probably 17th century, constructed of stone rubble with a soffit-chamfered oak lintel. The hall fireplace has been substantially rebuilt in 20th-century brick with a new timber lintel, but the right side is original Beerstone with a knife-sharpening depression. The presence of a double shaft on the hall stack suggests a first-floor fireplace, indicating a date of the early or mid-17th century when the hall was floored over. The hall crossbeam is of early or mid-17th century date, exhibiting a soffit-chamfer with double bar-scroll stops. The roof was completely replaced in the mid-20th century.

The cider house features plain carpentry and a roof constructed of 18th-century A-frame trusses with spiked lap-jointed collars and X-apexes.