Barn at Croft Farm

The barn at Croft Farm dates back to the 16th century. Its gables and the lower parts of the long walls are constructed from rubble stone, topped with an asbestos tile roof. The upper sections of each long wall are timber framed and feature two tiers of large square panels. On the north side, the timber panels are mostly exposed and include rare-surviving oak stave and lattice panels beneath the eaves, while the lower panels are covered with horizontal weatherboarding. The off-centre threshing floor has 20th-century corrugated metal doors. The south elevation faces the farmyard.

To the left of the threshing floor, there are granary steps supported by a brick wall, leading up in a straight flight to a boarded door with a slightly raised monopitch canopy. To the right of the threshing floor, the upper walls are timber-framed and horizontally boarded. The east gable features a square opening with a dripstone leading to the pitching loft, which has a boarded door.

Entering from the farmyard, you find a stone-flagged threshing floor. A low transverse partition made of broad vertical planks separates the threshing floor from a lower cowshed. The barn consists of four bays, with crucks alternating with framed trusses. To the left of the threshing floor, a cruck truss has a collar and tie beam, with the foot of the south blade sawn off below the tie and resting on a projecting stone pier. To the right, a framed collar and tie beam truss is supported by massive jowled posts. Above the central storage bays is an open cruck truss with a collar and notched spurs, flanked by framed tie-beam trusses at each gable.