Barn at Old Vicarage (including attached granary and stores)

The barn at Old Vicarage, which includes an attached granary and stores, is a Grade II* listed building. It is constructed from selected roughly coursed sandstone rubble and is whitewashed. The structure features a three-bay barn with a central cartway. The western bay is partly timber framed and weatherboarded, resting on a raised stone wall that is approximately 1.5 meters high. There are full-height boarded doors on the north side and a single wide door on the south side, which has a re-used lintel. The floor is flagged, having been completed in 1986, and the roof is reconstructed with stone slates.

Attached to the eastern gable are lean-to stores, also with a stone slated roof, which likely served as pig-sties in the past. Surrounding the irregular rectangular cobbled yard, which drains to a central gully, are walls approximately 1.2 meters high, with an opening at the northern end. The two-storey bay at the western end is built continuously with the barn and may be contemporary, although its stone slated roof is set slightly higher. This bay features a boarded door and a two-light window. Stone steps on the end elevation provide access to the upper floor, which is now used as a studio.

Inside, there are two pairs of crucks, with one on the west side being of full height and featuring a low elbow. This cruck is trenched for a missing tie beam and collar, both triple pegged, with an outrider carrying the lower of two tiers of purlins and a stub-tie to the wall plate. The apex is tenoned and cut off for the half-tree ridge, which has a bridled joint. The lap joint for the tie is a notched bare-face dovetail with a large centre pivot peg and two toshed fixing pegs, with both cruck couples erected into the central bay. The second truss has similar crucks but is now cut back by a high-set tie beam. The two-storey bay at the western end has an internal stone stack on the dividing wall that backs onto the barn.