Barn at New Manor Farm, Broughton

Barn at New Manor Farm, Broughton

An aisled barn dating from the 14th century, built reusing timber from the late 12th or early 13th century. It was altered in the 18th and 19th centuries, including the addition of aisles to the east and west, and the replacement of the north porch. The late 20th-century cattle sheds abutting the north and east elevations are not included in the listing.

The barn is constructed with an oak frame and weatherboard cladding above a brick plinth. The pitched roof is hipped with a gablet to the east and gabled to the west. The south elevation features a central double-leaf plank door, with a single-leaf door and three-light window to the right, and to the left a five-light window, a stable door, a single-leaf plank door and a further window. A brick buttress stands at the south-east corner. The north elevation has a projecting pitched-roof cart entrance porch topped by weatherboarding with a central four-light window; large sections of weatherboarding on this elevation have been lost. The later lean-to west aisle has multiple openings and is topped by a pitched roof which extends slightly beyond the barn's north elevation. The east aisle is also a lean-to and retains some weatherboard cladding.

The barn's timber-frame comprises a large central arcade with a contemporary southern aisle, a modified northern aisle with a replacement central projecting porch, and later aisles to the east and west. Empty mortices indicate the location of lost timbers, and several early timbers have been replaced, usually by softwoods, though some are reused timbers relocated elsewhere within the barn.

Six principal trusses survive. Apart from the easternmost truss, they are numbered III to VIII from east to west with carpenters' marks. The numbering and unfinished framing on both end trusses suggest the barn originally extended at least one further bay in both directions. The trusses consist of pairs of mostly jowled arcade posts topped by arcade plates, with arch braces springing from three sides of the posts to the arcade plates and tie beams. Tie beams and arcade plates are connected in places by dragon ties. Queen struts connect the tie beams to the principal rafters, with braces joining to a collar topped by clasped purlins. Small ashlar pieces fixed to the collars and principal rafters control the purlins. The roof has upper collars and a square-set ridge piece supported by saddles lapped into the principal rafters. Early common rafters survive in places. An apotropaic mark with a petal motif appears on the tie-beam at the barn's west end.

The original aisles remain to the north and south of the central arcade. Aisle roofs have purlins supported by angle struts pegged through passing braces running from the aisle wall to the main truss tie beams. The southern aisle retains its aisle posts and trusses along the full length. The northern aisle has been widened, resulting in loss of most original timber-framing to the west of the central porch and fragmentary survival to the east, including one full passing brace. The replacement northern central porch has timber-frame stud infill and a side-purlin roof.

The later east-end aisle is not square with the main structure and is topped by the hipped-end roof attached to the barn's east-end principal truss. The later west-end aisle is constructed of machine-sawn imported softwood with partial concrete render lining and a lean-to truss roof supported by pairs of struts with purlins and rafters. Vertical posts attach to the main barn by iron ties. Where the west aisle extends slightly north beyond the main structure, it has a queen-post roof and an internal partition covered by weatherboarding.

The barn is internally supported by late 20th-century diagonal timber restraints at the trusses, an early 21st-century metal scaffold matrix, and other props.