Barn And Adjoining Farmbuilding Approximately 5 Metres To West Of West Park Farmhouse

This is a barn and adjoining farmbuilding located approximately 5 metres to the west of West Park Farmhouse. It dates from the mid to late 19th century, with an addition made around 1900. The structure is built of uncoursed stone rubble and features a gable-ended Welsh-slate roof that is hipped over one corner. The plan is L-shaped, consisting of a range of shippons facing the farmyard to the south, with a barn that returns at right angles to the rear of the left-hand end. The circa 1900 addition includes a stable with a loft above, adjoining the right-hand end.

The exterior of the left-hand range features loft openings with wooden lintels, ground-floor windows, and boarded doors with segmental stone-arched heads. There are large boarded doors located off-centre to the left and two blocked doorways. The later addition on the right has a central gabled semi-dormer with a boarded loft door, a ground-floor two-light window, and two boarded doors, all with segmental brick-arched heads. The barn includes a cart entrance on the west side with a pair of sliding boarded doors, a dressed-stone flat-arched head, and a shallow porch with flanking projecting walls and extended eaves. There is a boarded door to the right with a stone flat-arched head and small windows in the apices of the gable ends. A boarded door is located at the rear, opposite the cart entrance. At the rear of the right-hand end of the barn, there is a former waterwheel pit with a lean-to wheel house, although the wheel has been removed.

Inside the barn, there is a six-bay 19th-century roof featuring bolted king-post trusses and pairs of purlins. Some machinery that was formerly associated with the waterwheel remains, including line shafting and belts. This barn is part of a small group in the area that previously housed water-driven threshing machinery, similar to Flitton Barton.