Barn To East South East Of Colleton Manor

This barn, located east south east of Colleton Manor, dates from the late 17th century and features 19th-century outshuts. It is constructed of plastered cob with a sedimentary stone rubble plinth, although some walls at the west end have been rebuilt in stone rubble. The barn has a thatched roof with a hipped left end and a half-hipped right end. At the time of the survey in 1988, part of the roof at the right end had collapsed.

The barn is long and built into a steeply sloping site, with the lower end to the west. It contains two threshing floors, one located to the right of center and the other towards the lower left end. The late 19th-century outshuts are positioned on the front to the left of center and at the rear.

On the exterior, the front features two cart entrances with original chamfered doorframes that include mason's mitres, and the chamfers are ogee-stopped at the center of the lintel for the central post. The entrances have old plank doors, and there are remains of a thatched canopy over the right-hand cart entrance. High up in the front and back walls are ventilation slits with stone surrounds, and two in the right gable end have timber lining. The front and rear also have late 19th-century stone rubble outskirts.

Inside, the original cob sections of the walls are plastered. Over three-quarters of the original roof remains intact, although about four bays towards the west end have collapsed. The roof features straight principal rafters set on pads at the wall tops, with apexes that are mortice and tenon jointed. The collars are lapped and pegged to the face of the principals, and three tiers of purlins are set on the backs of the principals. The diagonal ridgepiece is supported in the crutch formed by the projecting tenon of the apex joint, and most of the common rafters and battens are still intact.