Barn 30 Metres North Of Middle Mackham Farmhouse

ST 11 SW HEMYOCK 10/41 Barn 30 metres north of Middle - Mackham Farmhouse

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Barn. Circa late C15 or early C16; extended circa C18. Flint rubble and cob walls. Corrugated-iron roof with hipped and half-hipped ends. PLAN: Rectangular 4-bay barn, its higher east end built into slope of land; extended at lower west end circa C18. EXTERIOR: 1 storey. North side has two cart-entrances, that on right [W] has old plank doors; rounded flint north west corner to right. Half-hipped east end has cob wall with loading door. Later stone shed at right angles on south side. INTERIOR: Three side-pegged jointed cruck trusses with high collars; east truss has redundant mortices for a pair of collars; south post of centre truss removed when part of south wall was demolished for access into adjoining shed; two tiers of trenched purlins and trenched diagonally-set ridgepiece; common-rafters and some of battens intact and some thatch remains under corrugated-iron roof cladding.

Listing NGR: ST1503309918