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

This listing describes a barn and adjoining outbuildings located approximately 40 meters southwest of Brown's Marsh Farmhouse. The structures likely date from the mid to late 18th century, with early 19th-century additions and late 19th or early 20th-century alterations. They are constructed from coursed stone rubble, with cob at the rear and the right-hand end, and feature one late 19th-century brick lean-to addition. The roof is made of Welsh slate, hipped to the right and half-hipped to the left, with slate and corrugated iron covering the lean-to additions.

The layout includes the barn on the left, facing south, and a shippon with a loft above on the right. There are lean-to pigstys to the right of the barn door and an early 20th-century lean-to addition to the left, which may have served as a small petrol engine house replacing a former horse-engine. The exterior features large boarded double doors for the barn, with the left-hand door having two leaves and a wooden lintel. The late 19th-century lean-to addition on the left has a boarded door in its right-hand return. The former pigstys, likely from the 19th century, have two low openings at the front, though the pens have been demolished. There is a boarded door at the rear of the barn and a loft door in the left-hand end wall.

Inside, the barn has a five-bay roof supported by 18th-century trusses, which include principal rafters and collars, with late 19th or early 20th-century rafters. A metal shaft projects through the wall on a wooden saddle, likely a remnant of a drive shaft from an external horse engine. The shippon features a late 19th or early 20th-century three-bay roof. A stone wall separates the shippon from the barn, which is probably the farmer's end wall of the barn. Additionally, a post in front of the left-hand end of the barn may be the remains of a former horse-engine, although it did not necessarily have permanent housing.