Barn at Great Seabrights Farm (EHER 30980)

A barn at Great Seabrights Farm dating to approximately 1520. It is timber-framed with black weatherboarding and peg tiles to roof. In 1988 it was in the process of being converted into a public house.

Converted; now a pub/restaurant called Seabrights barn <1> Information from the NRHE Barn at Great Seabrights Farm. <2> Barn at Great Seabrights Farm, Galleywood. Barn built around 1520. Heavily framed in oak, of eight bays, with slightly later and off-central midstrey. Roofs ridged and gabled with eaves and fly-hips to main range. Black weatherboard and peg-tiles. Later midstrey, forelock-bolted to the posts of the fourth bay from the west wall side - girt, with five studs per bay of which the central stud is principal, curved wind-braces let into inner surfaces and spiked and confined to the returns and every alternate bay. Posts unusually heavy and jowled, with obtusely pitched tie beam braces with as many as eight pegs to each chase-mortise. Roof with queen-posts and two side-purlins per slope, the common-rafters passing the upper end tenoned into the lower side - purlin-curved wind braces in each pitch. All principal timbers stop-chamfered. The midstrey retains Great Doors, much repaired and probably 18th century, it has queen-post roof and matching wind-braces; it was an afterthought because the main top-plate was cut through when it was added. <3> The barn is in the process of being converted into a pub. At the time of visit the barn had been stripped to its timber frame, the roof felted and lathed (but not tiled), and new wooden boarding attached to the wall exterior presumably prior to plastering. <4>