Splatts Barn With Cattle Shelter And Cart Shed Range

Splatts Barn, along with its attached cattle shelter and cart-shed range, is a barn likely built in the early 19th century, with additions made in the mid to late 19th century and some alterations in the 20th century. The structure is made of rubblestone and features roofs of double-roman clay tiles and graduated stone slates.

The barn consists of five bays and has central opposing cart entrances with porches and added rear outshuts. To the right, there is a T-plan cattle shelter-shed that includes a loose box at an angle and a cart-shed in the rear range. The barn has quoins, and its entrance porch features a 20th-century corrugated iron double door, a timber lintel, and a hipped stone slate roof. There are slit vents on either side, marked by 20th-century lean-tos that are not of special interest. The main roof is tiled.

The shelter-shed on the right has four wide openings with timber lintels and a stone slate roof. The rear of the barn has a gabled cart-entrance porch with doors similar to the front, a window in the gable, and a stone slate roof. There is a two-light wood-mullioned window with iron bars in the left-hand aisle, a blocked doorway, and a one-light window in the right aisle. The shelter-shed on the left has a board door to the right. The cart-shed range, which projects on the right, is open-fronted with chamfered timber posts and lintels.

The left return of the barn gable is partly rendered and features a ledged bird-hole in the apex. The right return of the cart-shed range has a two-light, louvred, segmental-arched window under the gable, which lights the loose box. Inside, the barn has wood-pegged king-post trusses with braces to the principal rafters, along with original purlins and rafters. The cattle shelter and cart-shed range also have king-post trusses with braces to the principal rafters strapped onto tie-beams, trenched purlins, and a plank ridge piece. Inside the shelter-shed, the line of quoins in the barn wall indicates where the rear outshut has been added.

At the time of inspection in September 1988, the building was in a state of disrepair. The cattle-shelter and cart-shed range are included for their group value only.