Barn, Lower Court Farm

The barn at Lower Court Farm is an early 17th-century structure that also includes attached livestock housing. It features weatherboard cladding on a timber frame, a stone plinth, and patched brick in one area, topped with a corrugated iron roof. The barn is designed in an I shape, with four bays in the barn and two bays in the lower building. The gable faces the road and has two top-hung shuttered openings, a verge rafter, and two pairs of purlins, with a half-hip above the upper pairs. On the right side, there is a double doorway at eaves height, positioned to the right of the center, along with a pitch-hole to the right that is boarded over. The gable at the right end features two boarded stable doors for the lower wing. Inside, the framing consists of two panels high, with long braces extending to the sill, and a queen-strut truss with braces connecting to the wall posts. The upper sections appear to have long braces from the wall posts to a sill on either side of the threshing floor, crossing the bracing to the tie-beam. An angle strut truss is set back on the left and lacks bracing. The barn forms a group with the farmhouse nearby.