Storage Barn, Home Farm, Uppark

A timber-framed and masonry barn of around the late C18, altered to the rear in the C19.   MATERIALS: flint and stone walls with brick dressings, built around a timber frame.   PLAN: it consists of a large open space to the south side and an aisle to the rear, which includes a heated room at the north-east corner.   EXTERIOR: it is aligned east-west and is single storey under a tall, half-hipped roof. The west and south walls are of flint with brown and grey brick dressings. The east wall is similar but mainly constructed of coursed stone blocks. The south wall has two door openings and the bricks forming the south-east quoin appear to be rounded. The stonework of the east wall is topped by a cornice of three brick courses. It has a high-set opening to the north side with a planked door and an infilled, segmentally-headed door opening towards the centre. The north wall has been inserted (previously open-sided) and is constructed of brown brick laid in English garden wall bond. It has a 15-pane window to the left-side and two door openings with planked doors. The west wall is constructed of coursed, knapped flint.   INTERIOR: the main space has a dirt floor and a three-bay timber frame supported on concrete and brick pads and a brick plinth to the north side which runs east to west. Each post and truss frame has jowelled main posts supporting a tie beam, which along with the mid rail and wall plate is supported by straight braces. Above the tie beams, diagonal struts rise to the principal rafters which are joined by a collar. Hip and common rafters are supported by staggered purlins and meet at a ridge board. A number of later timbers have been added for stability and within the rear aisle some of the rafters are sawn cut. To the north side the frame is partially clad with rough-cut boards and at the east end there is a small room which has a brick hearth with timber cupboard to the side and the remains of a wattle and daub ceiling.