Barn With Adjoining Horse Engine House, Stable And Outbuilding Approximately 40 Metres To South West Of Witherhill Farmhouse

This is a range of farm buildings that includes a barn, horse-engine house, stable, and outbuilding, located approximately 40 meters southwest of Witherhill Farmhouse. The buildings likely date from the early 18th century, with additions made in the mid to late 19th century. They are constructed of cob on a stone rubble plinth, featuring squared and coursed stone piers that flank the barn entrances, along with an addition of uncoursed stone rubble. The roof is gable-ended, covered with late 19th-century clay tiles and corrugated sheets, which may have originally been thatched.

The layout of the buildings is aligned approximately northwest to southeast, facing a farmyard to the northeast. The 18th-century barn has a central pair of opposed cart entrances, with the stable and loft above to the right and additional farm buildings to the left. The horse-engine house, which has a square end, is located at the rear of the left-hand end of the barn and features an open side. There is also a probable late 19th-century one-storey lean-to addition at the right-hand end of the range.

The exterior of the barn includes a central pair of large plank doors, one of which is two-leaf, with a wooden lintel and flanking stone piers that likely once supported a shallow porch. The stable to the right has a plank loft door on the left, a ground-floor 19th-century casement window on the right with brick dressings and a wooden lintel, and a plank door on the left also with 19th-century brick dressings and a wooden lintel. There is a row of ten pigeon nesting-holes below the eaves to the right. The right-hand lean-to addition features a plank door at the front, with another central pair of large plank doors at the rear of the barn.

Inside, the barn likely has an early 18th-century five-bay roof with trusses made of straight principals and lapped pegged collars. The stable to the right of the barn has stone floors, old stalls, and 18th-century A-frame roof trusses. The horse-engine house at the rear of the barn contains a very large spine beam. This building is part of a farmstead group that also includes Witherhill Farmhouse.