Barn At Elliott'S

The barn at Elliott's is an 18th-century structure with a loft added in the late 19th century. It features random rubble stone gables and a back wall, with a contemporary brick nogged timber-frame front on a stone plinth, topped by a corrugated iron roof. The barn has three bays and a contemporary lean-to at the rear.

The facade facing the yard is timber-framed, with long straight braces extending from the main posts to the sill, and it is four panels high with thin, likely nailed rails. The stone gable ends frame the facade, which includes double boarded doors at the center; the left door is divided horizontally, and there is a cambered timber lintel above it. The door posts extend down to ground level. On the left side, two panels of infill are missing, and there are small, cross-shaped air vents in the upper half of the wall. The timber-framed lean-to on the right is not of special interest.

The left return features two pairs of slit air vents for the barn, with one in the gable above and another in the end of the lean-to. There is a small brick building against the lean-to that is also not of special interest.

Inside, the barn originally had a timber sill with braces to the wall posts on each side of the threshing floor, and there are inserted lofts. The rear wall is timber-framed like the front, and the threshing floor extends into the lean-to, which has low doors in the rear wall. The interior includes tie-beams and angle-strut trusses, with two pairs of butt purlins and a square ridge. There is a room on the left in the lean-to accessed from the threshing floor, and another room on the right accessed from outside, which was originally lofted; both rooms were likely used for livestock, with the loft intended for hens. This barn is an interesting example of the later stages of timber-framing.