Building record 524/3 - Former Farm Buildings at Old Village Farm

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 59024 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Former threshing barn and attached shippon, now store-sheds, late eighteenth century, of red-brown brick with a little sandstone; stone-slate roof partly replaced in graded and plain grey slate. The barn has porch to front and back, both under pentice roofs. Full-height doorway to front under oak camber-beam. The shippon (at right-angles to barn) has little altered camber-arched doorways with boarded doors, and loophole vents to cowshed and hayloft. The barn (open to the roof) has three rows of loophole vents. Interior. Shippon and barn have Kingpost trusses of oak (some timbers are re-used, probably from seventeenth century buildings). The trusses in the barn have braced wall-posts.