Barn And The Old Granary, Manor Farm

The Barn and The Old Granary at Manor Farm, part of the Sezincote Estate, is a Grade II listed building consisting of a barn, a store, and a former granary that has been converted into a house. The barn dates from the 18th century, while The Old Granary and the store were built in the mid-19th century.

The barn is rectangular in shape and features a projecting porch. The Old Granary is located to the right and extends back at the rear. There is a store attached to the left end of the barn. The structure is made of coursed squared and dressed limestone, with large concrete tiles on the barn and slate roofing on The Old Granary and the store on either side.

The barn has double plank doors leading to the central projecting porch, which has a concrete lintel and two reused carved medieval stone heads, one male and one female, in the gable. There is a blocked doorway with a segmental head in the right-hand wall of the porch, and a part-glazed plank door with a concrete lintel to the left of the porch. To the left of the barn, there is a plank door with a cambered head leading to the store. The barn interior features four open bays divided by timber uprights at the rear, with a hayloft above.

The Old Granary is two storeys high and has 2-light 20th-century metal casements with horizontal glazing bars on the first floor. A projecting square datestone with a raised circle at the centre, which does not have a date, is situated between the upper floor windows. There is a 20th-century garage door on the lower left, along with three 20th-century metal casements with horizontal glazing bars on the ground floor and two part-glazed 20th-century doors. The concrete lintel over the garage door continues to the right.

The barn features flat gable-end coping and roll-cross saddles with pointed trefoil decoration on the sides, along with leaning fleur-de-lys finials on the gable ends and on the porch gable. The store and The Old Granary also have flat gable-end coping. Inside the barn, there are five bays with some original collar and tie trusses, while the store on the left has 19th-century king-post trusses.