Flint Barn At Downley Farm On The East Side Of Farmyard

The Flint Barn at Downley Farm, located on the east side of the farmyard, is a barn that likely dates from the late 18th century and features a later addition. It was built for the Dashwood Estate and is constructed of flint with brick bands, pilaster strips, quoins, and quoined surrounds. The addition includes weatherboard on a brick plinth. The barn has a plain tile roof that is half-hipped at the north end and consists of five bays with a two-way addition at the south end.

There are central opposed cart entries with board doors; the entry on the east side has a gabled, weatherboard midstray, while the west side, facing the yard, features a stable door to the left and a wide blocked entrance on the right. The barn has two tiers of slit vents. The west elevation of the addition includes a stable door flanked by small-pane windows, with two boarded-up openings above.

Inside, the barn has tile beams, with curved principal rafters rising to collars, two tiers of clasped through purlins, intermediate collars, and old rafters, but no ridge-piece. The roof was originally half-hipped at the south end, where the gable was made of weatherboard with a hatch below. This barn is an important building within the farmyard group, which includes the farmhouse dated 1819.