South Barn, Home Farm, Uppark

South Barn, Home Farm, Uppark

A storage barn with granary over, dating from around the late 18th century, extended in the early to mid-19th century and 20th century.

The building is constructed with brick, flint and stone elevations, under a clay tile roof. Its plan is U-shaped and located towards the centre of the farmyard, with numerous storerooms on the ground floor and a granary space above the two-storey eastern section.

The original L-shaped phase faces east with a return to the south. The elevations are built of brown brick over a plinth, laid in Flemish bond, with blue and grey headers aligned vertically in alternate courses. The cornice to the north and south comprises four courses of projecting brickwork, three of which are of moulded bricks. On the south side stand a pair of tall, late-19th or early-20th century stable doors under a midstrey decorated with hung tiles laid in a diamond pattern.

A straight joint in the brickwork marks the start of the early-19th century extension to the west, which has a similar cornice and three openings under segmental brick headers fitted with 20th century doors. The opening to the west end has been reduced in height under a concrete lintel, and a bricked-up opening is evident towards the centre. The roof is hipped at the west end.

The upper part of the east elevation is covered by hung tiles laid in a diamond pattern, interrupted by a four-pane casement window and a bricked-up door opening towards the south end. Towards the centre are a planked door and a three over six sash window, which fronts an internal six-pane window. At the north end are two pairs of planked cart doors, those to the right having glass panes to the upper section. The roof is hipped to the north end with diamond-shaped patterns within the tiling.

The north elevation has four stone panels and a plinth of coursed rubble stone. The cornice comprises four courses of brickwork, interrupted by a 20th century, high-set eight-pane casement window. To the right side, the brown-brick end wall of a mid-19th century lean-to is evident, standing under a later extension of the 18th century catslide roof with a louvered opening, concrete lintel and cill. The west face of the lean-to is constructed of coursed stone blocks. The visible rear of the 18th century section is mainly constructed of knapped flint. A mid-19th century brick extension to the west end stands under a lean-to roof of corrugated metal.

Interior

The southern hip of the 18th century roof structure is visible under the midstrey roof. A later internal brick wall has a high-set opening into a first floor storage space, where the roof has three intermediate A-shaped trusses, each formed of a tie beam concealed in the floor and a collar. The common rafters are supported on staggered butt purlins, tenoned into the sides of the principal rafters. The form of the roof suggests that the attic was intended to be floored, and the side walls are boarded with metal sheeting which may conceal earlier timber boarding or similar finishes. This space was probably used as a granary.

On the ground floor are cart or stable spaces, divided by later brick pillars, and a 20th century floor frame has been installed. The spaces within the extensions are either bare-brick or rendered with floors of either brick or cobbled construction. The roof above the early-19th century extension is visible where one room has no ceiling and appears to be formed of multiple, lightweight, sawn timbers.