Byre approximately 50 metres north-west of Bower Hall (EHER 27873)

The cow shed is a timber-framed and weatherboarded structure in four bays likely originating in the 16th century.

November 2021. Level 3 building survey. The cow shed is a timber-framed and weatherboarded structure in four bays which extends to 12.8 m in length on an approximately east-west axis by a total of 5.4 m in width. Its walls rise to 2.2 m at their roof-plates but were probably higher initially as the decayed sills, now largely encased in concrete, appear to be replacements at the same level as the modern floor. The low-pitched roof is a 20th century replacement designed for its existing covering of corrugated iron. The wall framing contains evidence of at least two major phases of construction as distinguished in. Both gables along with the southern walls of the two eastern bays and the northern wall of the western are well framed in the medieval tradition with pegged mortices and evidence of externally trenched braces which, have been largely removed. While an early 16th century date is not unlikely given the similarity of the two frames a late 16th or early 17th century origin cannot be ruled out. While many of the northern studs match those of the gables, the entire roof-plate of this elevation was replaced in the late 18th or early 19th century and contains face-halved and bladed scarf joints of standard post-Tudor form along with unpegged mortices. <1> See also: <2>