Barn at Croft Farm

C16 barn. Gables and lower part of the long walls are rubble stone, asbestos tile roof. Upper part of each long wall is timber framed and has two tiers of large square panels. On N side timber panels are mostly exposed and include (below eaves) rare-surviving oak stave and lattice panels; lower panels are clad by horizontal weatherboarding. Off-centre threshing floor has C20 corrugated metal doors. S elevation faces farmyard. On long wall to left of threshing floor, granary steps have brick supporting wall and rise in a straight flight to boarded door with slightly raised monopitch canopy. To right of threshing floor, upper walls are timber-framed and horizontally boarded. E gable has square opening with dripstone to pitching loft with boarded door.

Entry from farmyard into stone-flagged threshing floor. Low transverse partition of broad vertical planks separates threshing floor from lower cowshed. Barn of 4 bays; crucks alternate with framed trusses. To left of threshing floor, cruck truss has collar and tie beam, the foot of S blade is sawn off below tie and carried on projecting stone pier. To right, framed collar and tie beam truss is supported on massive jowled posts. Over the centre storage bays is an open cruck truss with collar and notched spurs, and flanking each gable are framed tie-beam trusses.