Tretower Court Barn

Barn of rubble sandstone with a stone-tile roof and slightly swept eaves. A butt joint separates the building into 2 units, of which the N unit is slightly longer and comprises the C17 rebuild while the S unit is the C16 barn. In the W wall facing Tretower Court the N unit has a tall cart passage doorway to L under renewed timber lintel and with double boarded doors, to L of which is a doorway under a timber lintel and with boarded stable door. The L jamb of the doorway continues up as a full-height butt joint. To R of cart passage are 3 doorways to dung and feed passages of byre, all with boarded doors under long timber lintels, above which cross-beam ends are exposed (possibly indicating a former pentice). In the S unit is a tall, wide cart passage doorway with double boarded doors and renewed timber lintels. The jamb on the lower S side consists of large limestone blocks. Flanking the doorway are 2 tiers of small openings framed in dressed stone. In the S gable end is a blocked window (with inserted narrow breather and flanked by similar breathers), above which is a 5-light window with diamond mullions and minor stanchions in wood and under a timber lintel. In the E wall of the S unit the cart passage doorway has renewed lintel and corrugated iron doors, to R of which is a single small opening framed in wood. The N unit has a cart passage doorway to R boarded up, to L of which are 2 openings under timber lintels (the blocking of a 3rd is visible inside the building), which correspond to the passages in the byre. (Corrugated lean-to attached to rear.) To R of cart passage doorway is a tall narrow breather. The N gable end has 3 tiers of breathers.

The dividing wall between N and S units has, on N side, a large late C15 fireplace at original first-floor level with a deep chamfered lintel. The level of the floor is visible in the dividing wall but nothing else survives of it. Inside the N unit is a rubble stone partition wall between byre and barn which butts the main walls and rises to the height of the cross-beams and defines position of a former loft (lower than the 1st floor of the original building). S of partition wall the 3 passages have flagged floors and the former stalls are partly cobbled. In the S face of the dividing wall is a first-floor stack on corbels, although it is blocked beneath the roof.