Barn At Bayton'S Farm

The barn at Bayton's Farm is a Grade II listed structure dating from the early 16th century, with alterations made in the late 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and sits on a stone plinth, topped with a corrugated iron roof. The barn features six bays and is partly lofted.

The side facing the house has an approach that runs across the former threshing floor, with a double doorway at eaves height, although the doors are missing. To the left of this doorway, there are two complete bays, with the lower part faced in corrugated iron and weatherboarding above. There is a shuttered opening in the upper part near the carriageway. The first bay to the right is also faced with corrugated iron and has a shallow glazed opening below the eaves. The two bays further to the right display exposed timber framing, with three panels high; the lower two are brick-nogged, while the top is flat woven wattle with remnants of white render. There is a built-up door to the right of the middle bay, and the head of the main post on the right is thickened towards the left. The gables feature post and truss framing, with a low door on the left side of the right gable.

Inside, the barn has four cruck trusses, two on each side of the carriageway, with inserted sills in the center two. A pair of flat purlins is supported by secondary principal rafters, and there is a square ridge. Windbraces below the rafters may have been added later. A curved brace is set inside the wall framing on the house side in the right bay. Three wide doorways have been cut into the long wall away from the house, likely in the early 20th century, with one doorway removing a similar brace. A loft has been inserted in the barn, but the original loft is in the end bay on the right, which is separated from the barn by a timber-framed wall up to the wallplate level, with only two struts propping the purlins and no truss. The barn was originally built as a five-bay threshing barn, with the end bay possibly serving as a cowhouse or stable, which may be part of the original construction.