Barn About 50 Metres East Of Hurcott Farmhouse

This is a barn located about 50 meters east of Hurcott Farmhouse, likely a conversion of an earlier farmhouse, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. The west end is constructed of near-ashlar Ham stone, while the east end is made of rubble, topped with a half-hipped thatched roof. The barn is single-storey and consists of 10 bays. Bays 2 and 3 feature ovolo-mould mullioned windows with four lights, which share a label with a doorway in bay 1 that has a boarded door in a heavy frame. There is a similar door in bay 4, both accessed by five steps. Bay 5 has garage doors, while bays 6, 7, 8, and 9 open to the south side, supported by two timber columns and one stone column. Bay 10 has an inserted floor with a door below and a timber-framed wattle and daub partition, with traces of similar partitions in bays 5 and 9. The interior of the west half has not been seen, but it is reported to have a jointed cruck roof with smoke-blackened windbracing. The east half features collar-and-tie roof trusses. The barn may represent a single-storey long house from the 16th century, which was updated in the 17th century with new windows and the addition of the five eastern bays.