Barn at Yardley Hall (EHER 37625)

17th century timber-framed barn.

17th century timber-framed and weatherboarded barn, with a red plain tile hipped roof. It is three bays long with a hipped midstrey to west. <1> 2011. Building survey. Yardley Hall Farm is split into two distinct farmyards. That to the south-west is a quadrangle composed of brick and flint 19th century open sheds and pig sties. That to the north-west is dominated by a three-bay timber-framed and weather-boarded barn with a full height midstrey porch on its western side. Beside the porch is a ramshackle timber lean-to clad and roofed with corrugated iron sheets which is currently used as a sheep shelter. It is open to the north with a pair of iron gates to close the pen. Added to the north of the barn is a timber-framed workshop, weather-boarded and roofed with corrugated asbestos sheet. The workshop has no southern wall and instead the rafters are sprung off an applied plate nailed to the outside of the barn wall. To the rear of the barn and in-line with the workshop is an open sided three-bay shelter still with the hayrack and mangers for the horse standings. Enclosed on the end of the range is a small two stall stable that contains racks and mangers as well as the pumping equipment for the nearby swimming pool. <2>