Barn, Friar'S Court

The barn at Friar's Court is a structure likely dating from the 15th and 17th centuries, with a loft added in the mid-19th century. It is timber-framed and sits on a stone plinth, topped with a corrugated-iron roof. The barn has six bays and features a slight bend in the center of its plan, with a loft at one end.

On the yard side, there are double boarded doors leading to the threshing floors, positioned one panel below the eaves and one bay in from each end. The plinth steps up to the right in the center, and there is a boarded-over pitching hole on the right. The weatherboarding includes some inset boards between the studs on the left and butt-jointed boarding on the right. On the field side, the plinth is the same, with doors set into the eaves, each divided into two halves, and a boarded-over pitching hole leading to the loft. The weatherboarding continues, with butt-jointed boarding in one central bay.

Inside, the threshing floors are stone paved, with the right floor flanked by cruck trusses that originally had collars and spurs, although the collars are now missing. There is an inserted low brick plinth on the left, with a timber sill above, and a loft inserted on the right that includes shafting for driving feed preparation machinery. The barn features one pair of purlins and a square ridge. The center truss was hidden by hay at the time of inspection in 1985. The left threshing floor has low sill walls on each side, with a timber top and angled braces rising to the main posts, connecting straight to the tie beam, with a central vertical post. One angled brace is missing on the right, and one is short above on the left. The doors are narrower than the threshing floor and frame three panels high. The trusses include a tie beam, collar, and angle struts, with two pairs of purlins and a square ridge. It was reported that the barn was originally thatched.