Barn And Adjoining Outbuildings Approximately 40 Metres To South West Of Brown'S Marsh Farmhouse

NORTH MOLTON MARSH LANE SS 72 NW 13/168 Barn and adjoining outbuildings - approximately 40 metres to south- west of Brown's Marsh Farmhouse II Barn and adjoining outbuildings. Probably mid to late C18 with early C19 additions and late C19 or early C20 alterations. Coursed stone rubble, with cob to rear and at right hand end. One late C19 brick lean-to addition. Welsh slate roof, hipped to right and half-hipped to left. Slate and corrugated iron over lean-to additions. Plan: Barn to left, facing south, and shippon with loft above to right. Lean-to pigstys to right of barn door and early C20 lean-to addition to left of barn door, possibly small petrol engine house replacing former horse-engine. Exterior: Large boarded double doors to barn (left-hand door 2 leaf), with wooden lintel. Late C19 lean-to addition to left with boarded door in right-hand return. Probably C19 former pigstys to right of entrance with 2 low openings to front (pens demolished). Boarded door at rear of barn and loft door in left-hand end wall. Shippon to right with square loft opening and ground-floor boarded door with wooden lintel. Boarded door to right-hand return front with wooden lintel. Interior: Five-bay roof with C18 trusses consisting of principal rafters and collars. Late C19 or early C20 rafters. Metal shaft projecting through wall on wooden saddle, probably formerly drive shaft from external horse engine. Interior of shippon with late C19 or early C20 three-bay roof. Stone wall between shippon and barn, probably farmer end wall of barn. Post in ground in front of left-hand end of barn is possibly the remains of a former horse-engine (not necessarily with permanent housing).

Listing NGR: SS7251727500