Farmbuilding Complex 75 Metres West Of Oburneford Farmhouse

This is a farmbuilding complex built in 1821, located 75 metres west of Oburneford Farmhouse. It consists of a barn, linhays, a milling and threshing machine room, a sheltered yard, and an underground water-wheel. The words "Rob Pitt had this barn built in 1821 by William Brown the mason and William Thomas carpenter" are painted on a bressumer above the sheltered yard. The building is constructed of cob with a stone plinth, plastered, and has a gabled-end slate roof. The complex is roughly L-shaped and situated on sloping ground, providing easy vehicular access to the rear where the machine room is located. This room is powered by a water-wheel that still survives underground and is fed by a leet. The front of the building features two storeys, with a 5-bay hay loft and barn above the sheltered section of the livestock yard, following the principle of a bank barn. The milling equipment is largely intact, with one drive-shaft powering a root masher located in the tallet above the adjoining linhay, which encloses a separate yard. Additionally, machines for threshing and reed combing were housed in this complex. The main barn, which may be slightly older than the other parts of the building, has a large pentice roof over lay loft double doors above the sheltered yard, overhanging eaves and fascia, and a prominent weathervane.