Barn Attached To East Side Of The Courthouse

This is a barn attached to the east side of the Courthouse, dating from the late 17th century. It is built of rubble brought to course and has a pantile roof. The barn is two storeys high with five internal bays and features quoins at the east end.

On the south elevation, the ground floor includes, from the left, a square window, a board half-door set in a quoined surround, a blocked cart-entry with a segmental arch made of roughly-shaped voussoirs, and a wide board door also in a quoined surround. The first floor has slit and square vents. The rear elevation, on the ground floor from the left, has two wide doorways with remnants of quoined surrounds and timber lintels, a single-light chamfered opening, and the right end is obscured by a later cart-shed that is not of special interest. The first floor at the rear also has slit and square vents. At the east end, there is a single-storey extension that was used for a horse-engine, which lacks architectural features.

Inside the barn, at the west end, there is a ground-floor chamber with a niche for a candle in the cross-wall and a chamfered square-section cross-beam. The roof is supported by principal rafters. The barn is depicted in a sketch of "Cowburn" in Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook.