The Byre, Milton Street

The Byre is a single-storey, three-bay building likely mainly constructed in the early 19th century, although it incorporates some earlier fabric in its south-west corner. The building is constructed of flint, both knapped and unknapped, with red brick quoins and a slate roof.

The east or entrance front features an off-centre, ledged and braced wooden double door. Further north is a cambered opening with a wooden pegged architrave and wooden shutters. The east wall, north of the double doors, is built with rough flints and a single brick course halfway up. The wall to the south of the double doors has knapped flint for two-thirds of its height, then a course of red brick, and finally more knapped flints. The south-west corner includes some earlier two-inch bricks and a flat stone, possibly reused from a local medieval site. The south wall has a wooden pedestrian entrance at its eastern end and a high-level opening with restored mullions. The lower third of the west side is built of knapped flints. Above this is a section using alternate upended brick stretchers flanked by knapped flints, and the upper section features several courses of brickwork laid mainly in English garden wall bond. There is a blocked opening on the north side, which is mostly hidden by a wooden lean-to addition.

Inside, the roof is a 19th-century kingpost roof of three bays, with clasped purlins and iron ties. A wooden feeding rack runs along the entire west wall, with a wooden feeding trough positioned below it at the north end. Traces of three wooden stall partitions remain, and gaps in the feeding rack suggest that there may have been three additional partitions originally. The east wall has two large projecting wooden hooks, likely used for hanging harnesses. The floor is cobbled. External doors and some window mullions were replaced in the early 21st century.