Barn With Attched Horse Engine House On North-West Side Of Farmyard At Village Farm

This is an early 19th-century barn with an attached horse engine house, located on the north-west side of the farmyard at Village Farm. The barn’s construction is in pinkish brick laid in an English garden wall bond (5:1), with pantile roofing. The barn has five bays, with the engine house projecting from the right-hand bays. A tall board door is situated under a timber lintel in the slightly projecting portal of bay 2, the portal being roofed by a continuation of the main barn roof. To the left of the door are three tiers of vents, with paired slits to the lower tiers and square vents set in a lozenge shape above. On the right side, a similar vent is at the upper level, but the rest of this side is masked by a hexagonal engine house. The engine house features brick piers between side panels, which have brickwork to the lower halves and boarding or corrugated iron above, interspersed with windows, and has a hipped roof. The engine house has stepped dentilled eaves. An outshut on the left end is not of special interest and obscures blocked vents. A later farm building added to the right end is also not of special interest. The rear of the barn shows a blocked opposing portal and a bricked-up round archway to the engine house. Inside the engine house is a king-post truss with braces on a massive tie-beam, corbelled from the barn wall, supporting beams.