Barn, Noake Court Farm

SO 81 NE HUCCLECOTE CHURCHDOWN LANE (west side) 9/66 Barn, Noake Court Farm II Barn. Mid C18. Wide weatherboarding on timber-framing, English garden wall bond brick gable, tiled roof. Three-unit barn, porch one side. Gable to road: stone plinth, brick above, 3 diamond- shaped grouped air vents, stone copings to parapet gable. Left return: brick wall for short section on right, high brick plinth: boarding above. Projecting porch to left, double boarded doors in gable wall, 3 holes in gable over. Lower plinth to left (ground slopes up from road); pitching-hole: left gable timber-framed. Interior, 5 bays, no intermediate rail to framing, long braces to corner posts and posts by threshing floor. Timber tie either side threshing floor at level of top of sill wall, open below except for centre timber prop: long braces rise to tie beam of truss, angled towards centre. Trusses with angle struts, 2 pairs purlins, plank ridge. Long wind brace from wall plate cuts rafters. No evidence of dovecote in porch. Loft inserted in one half C20: good example of late type of timber-framed barn.

Listing NGR: SO8808817941