Barn at Kilford Farm

The Barn at Kilford Farm is a 17th-century agricultural building oriented west to east. It features a main section built of brick with a cross-gabled through passage at the center, and a contemporary six-bay barn attached flush to the east. The structure has a continuous slate roof, with corrugated iron sheeting covering the western section. The eastern part is constructed from limestone rubble, including some rough-dressed blocks, and has a brick gable apex that incorporates a dovecote with nesting niches arranged in five tiers, along with a large modern entrance. The south side of this section has four square openings in the upper wall, framed with wood from former lintels and sills, and a large modern entrance to the left with a prominent timber lintel.

The brick main section includes large open central entrances with gables above, flanked by three entrances on either side. Decorative ventilators are arranged in lozenge groupings on the north and south sides of the central section. The left-hand part of the barn is whitened.

Inside, the eastern stone-built section has a five-bay roof supported by three re-used former hammerbeam trusses, along with a queen-post truss that forms a dais-end partition at the west end. The main trusses have lost their hammerbeams, braces, and wall posts, but have tie-beam insertions. There are some re-used purlins and evidence of former windbracing on the principal trusses. The southern entrance gable of the main barn section features a re-used wall frame with a queen-post truss.