Combination barn and linhays at Greenslade Farm

This is a combination barn and linhays, likely dating from the 18th century and modified later. The buildings are primarily of cob construction on a stone plinth, with a timber roof structure covered in corrugated-tin. 20th-century materials, including concrete block, have been used for alterations.

The farmhouse is located to the south-east of the farmstead, with the farm buildings arranged along the north boundary. The open-fronted linhays face south.

Central to the farmyard is a combination barn, featuring a single-floor threshing barn alongside a 19th-century wheelhouse. The threshing barn is of cob and brick on a stone plinth with a corrugated-tin pitched roof, rectangular in plan with roughly three bays, and double-height with no internal upper floor. The main doors are on the north-east (out) with a cat-slide roof, and south-west (in), with a later opening added to the south-east elevation. Slit windows are positioned below the eaves at the upper level. Internally, the barn has a collar-beam roof with purlins and principal rafters directly into the cob wall-plate. A timber-framed full-height partition is located at the north-west end, possibly originally for a lofted stable or cow house. Some apotropaic daisy wheels are inscribed on the internal walls. A single-storey brick bull pen is attached at the south corner of the barn, and there is a further lean-to on the north-east elevation. Attached to the north-east elevation of the threshing barn is a single-storey wheelhouse, semi-circular in plan, with a corrugated-tin roof supported on granite monoliths with half-walls of stone and 20th-century concrete block. It has a collar-beam roof, with additional roughly-hewn beams resting on a giant horizontal whim beam which enters the north-east wall of the threshing barn.

A linear range of linhays runs east to west at the west end of the farmyard, on its north side, connecting to the threshing barn at their eastern end. They are constructed of cob, red brick and sandstone with timber posts to the open front, some supported with 20th-century concrete blocks, and have corrugated-tin pitched roofs. The main section is seven bays, open to a collar-beam roof with purlins and no common rafters. The western sections of linhay are of five bays over two-storeys, featuring a hayloft to the upper storey. A single-storey lean-to is at the north-east end.