High Barth Barn

High Barth Barn is a bank barn with a shippon, likely built in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble, featuring through-stones and quoins, and has a stone slate roof. The barn has a rectangular plan consisting of four structural bays and is situated on a south-facing slope, with the barn positioned over the shippon, creating two unequal storeys.

The shippon includes four doorways with shallow segmental-arched heads and dressed voussoirs, along with two small square windows flanking the third doorway. A continuous stone slate drip-course runs above these openings. The barn also has similar drip-courses on three levels, with the lowest one interrupted by a loading doorway located above the first window. Both gable walls display bands of through-stones on five levels, extending up to the gable itself, and feature a large owl-hole between the two topmost bands. A small 20th-century lean-to is attached to the west end.

The rear of the barn is made of random rubble with through-stones on three levels and has a segmental-arched wagon doorway that is slightly offset to the left of centre. This doorway is fitted with double board doors and has a drip-band above it, along with a sunk square panel positioned in the centre above the doorway.

Inside, the shippon has lateral partitioning, and there is a feeding hatch in the floor of the barn. The roof is supported by fish-bone strutted kingpost roof trusses. This barn is a good example of the type of agricultural building that is characteristic of Cumbrian farms from the 18th and 19th centuries. It forms a group with High Barth Farmhouse.