Barn At Clarke'S Farm

SO 71 SE HARDWICKE

4/63 Barn at Clarke's Farm

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Barn. C14 or C15; C18 enlargement. Timber-framed with weatherboarding; corrugated-iron roof. 4-bay; south end bay wider than rest, used as cow byre. South end: half-hipped with 2 plank doors of differing sizes to loft; glazed opening below. East side: scattered glazed openings; plank barn doors to off-centre opening; byre projects forward to left. West side: 2 pairs of doors, main plank barn doors to off-centre opening, and corrugated-iron to byre; single glazed opening to right of barn doors. North end: gabled; attached are remains of cow-byre, much rebuilt with hipped roof. Interior: 2 crucks and 2 trusses on posts. 1 complete cruck with collar; cruck spurs to posts; second cruck (former south end of barn) cut off for hipped roof, having heavy tie-beam. Tie-beam trusses with collars and strutting, supported on jowled posts with curved knee-bracing. Widely spaced studded wall framing to 2 north bays with long straight passing braces.

Listing NGR: SO7765313240