Barn By Road, Roel Farm

The barn at Roel Farm, dating from the early to mid 19th century, is a Grade II listed structure that includes a barn, cartshed, and associated former shelter sheds. It features random rubble walls with squared larger quoins and has boarded walls on the sheds. The roofs are made of stone slate for the buildings by the road, concrete tile for the projecting wing on the right, and corrugated asbestos on the left.

The barn has eight bays with a central, projecting wing facing the road. To the left, there is a former lofted cartshed with a wide opening and a timber lintel, above which is a stone wall featuring a central boarded door and a glazed light. The main facade is elevated, with a boarded door leading into a gabled dormer, accessed by a short flight of stone steps. The barn on the right is taller, with a parapet gable and a square owl hole. On the left side, there is a boarded door to a pitch hole above and a low boarded door with a timber lintel.

The central projecting wing is plain, with wide doorways on each side at eaves level, and a small door and pitch hole on the right. Behind this wing, there is a single-storey wing with a doorway and window opening, and a wallplate serving as a lintel. Beyond this is a former open-fronted shelter shed, now with a boarded front and doorways, while the left side originally had an open-fronted shelter shed, of which only the rear stone wall remains, now widened with a boarded wall and doors.

Inside the barn, the floor is lower than the road, with a wide opening to the central wing set above road level. There are two low boarded doors leading to the yard opposite, and a wall recess serving as a cupboard. The roof consists of eight bays with collar and tie beam trusses, while the projecting wing has king-post trusses with bolts. The cartshed, originally lofted in four bays, retains only the main floor beams, with an interrupted tie beam truss above. All roofs feature two pairs of purlins and a plank ridge. This important range is situated alongside the road and appears to have been designed for machine threshing, forming a group with the house and stables nearby.