Duke's Barn

Duke's Barn is a long barn and lofted cowhouse built in a single linear farm range. It features rubble stone construction, with a slate roof at the lower southwest end and corrugated asbestos roofing towards the northeast. The southeast elevation faces a yard, with the main barn on the right and the lofted cowhouse on the left. The barn includes an off-centre earth threshing floor and a raised flat canopy over the cartshed entry, although the barn door is no longer present.

On the long wall to the right, there is a single slit, a vertical build line, a blocked doorway with a timber lintel, and a second vent slit. The long wall on the left has two vent slits. The cowhouse features an external stone staircase leading to an upper loft doorway, which has a flat door-head with a monopitch roof that rises above the eaves and a boarded door. The upper floor on the right has a second ruined opening. On the ground floor, to the left of the staircase, is a cowhouse doorway with a timber lintel and a vent slit on the adjacent wall. To the right of the staircase is a second cowhouse doorway. The northeast gable of the barn has two vent slits on the ground floor, and above them is a square boarded door leading to the pitching loft. The southwest gable of the cowhouse has similar vent slits and a blocked doorway on the ground floor. At a right angle to the barn, on the far right, is a large 20th-century six-bay open fronted shelter shed with a corrugated asbestos roof.

Inside, the barn has an 11-bay layout. Each side of the threshing floor is supported by raking queen strut trusses, while collar and tie beam trusses are found at each end of the barn, with three at the lower end and two at the upper end. There are two tiers of trenched purlins. Flanking the threshing floor on the lower side is a low stone wall with a heavy timber sill, rising to a height of approximately 1 meter.