Purleigh Hall Barn and the Old Barn (EHER 38561)

A timber framed and weatherboarded barn built in around 1800, and converted into two dwellings in around 1982. The roof is covered with handmade red clay tiles.

March 1981. Grade II listed. A timber framed and weatherboarded barn built in around 1800, and converted into two dwellings in around 1982. The roof is covered with handmade red clay tiles. It originally comprised 10 bays aligned approximately north-south, but was reduced by two bays at the north end after fire damage. There are two midstreys to the east and there is an original outshut between the midstreys, forming a catslide with the main roof. It is on a brick plinth and the left return is in brick. <1> See photos <2>. Purleigh Hall is the demesne farmstead of the principal and largest of Purleigh's manors and has almost certainly been located on this site since the Saxon period, although the current house is 19th and 20th century in date. <3>