Timber-framed barn at Lower Preshaw Farm

The barn, likely dating from the 17th to 18th century, is a timber-framed structure built on a predominantly red brick plinth. The frame itself is constructed of slender timbers, weather boarded externally on the upper portion, with the lower section featuring a brick plinth of alternating stretchers and headers, which is taller on the yard-facing side. The roof is now clad in asbestos sheeting, but was originally probably thatched. The barn is set into the side of a hill.

The building is a three-bay aisled barn with a deep, oversailing hipped roof. It features opposing gabled cart entrances in the central bay. A tall, half-hipped, gabled porch projects beyond the eastern, farmyard entrance, and has been extended. The gabled porch on the western side is flush with the external wall, although the entrance opening rises above the wall plate.

The interior wall frame retains many of the original broad studs, although some have been replaced with slimmer timbers. Aisle posts are set on square-based red brick piers, which are the same height as the outer brick plinth; some posts sit on timber pads. Most of the aisle posts are jowled, and the north-western aisle post appears to be reused, suggesting repairs or incorporation of material from a previous building at this end. The truss to the north of the entrance has curved braces; elsewhere, braces are straight and are mostly pegged in. The inner faces of the gabled porches are lined with horizontally laid planks, which are wider, indicating they are earlier, in the eastern porch. The roof is a queen strut roof with clasped purlins, straight braces, and no ridge piece, with supplementary bracing added to the frame and roof.