Barn and attached complex of buildings at Oak Farm (EHER 34345)

An early 19th century barn and farm buildings. It is mainly red brick in Flemish and English bond, some weatherboarded timber framing, roofed with corrugated asbestos and slate.

Listed building description An early 19th century barn and farm buildings. It is mainly red brick in Flemish and English bond, some weatherboarded timber framing, roofed with corrugated asbestos and slate. The barn is aligned N-S, with two midstreys to the E, and lean-tos between the midstrey and in the NE angle. From its N end a range extends to the WNW, comprising wagon-lodge, shelter shed and stalls. Further S a range extends W from the barn, having a coach-house with loft over in the middle, and a single-storey wing to each side of it. The barn has a half-hipped gambrel roof of corrugated asbestos. The other buildings have low-pitched hipped roofs of slate. The E elevation of the barn has two round windows with cast iron radial tracery, one round-headed window, three halved doors, two pairs of halved doors and one pair of great doors. The southern half is ceiled and partly lined with matchboarding, having been used as a parish hall. The northern half has an open roof with raking struts from the straight tie beams to the principal rafters, tenoned collars and clasped purlins in the upper pitch. The WSW range has four open bays to the N and two pairs of double doors, two open bays to the south and two halved doors, and is partly weatherboarded. The two-storey coach-house opens to the S, towards the former farmhouse (now The Oak, item 3/17, q.v.); to the N it has on the first floor three partly slatted windows, and on the ground floor three halved doors and three plain boarded doors. The single-storey wing to the W of it is a shelter shed fully open to the N. The single-storey wing to the E of it comprises stables with 5 halved doors. It was built by Guy's Hospital, which owned the farm from 1725 to 1920. <1>