Barn at Little Hyde Hall Farm (EHER 49955)

The barn which stands at the east of the entrance to Little Hyde Hall Farm dates from the late 16th century. It is timber framed with a high steep-roofed gable and is of six bays.

Late C16. High steep-roofed gabled, weatherboarded, timber framed, 6-bay barn. 1-bay stable extension to north of same height. Central projecting gabled porch with small recessed outshuts to sides. Low brick plinth in English bond. Remarkably low height of walls. Framed clasped purlin roof with collars and diminished principals. 1 purlin to each slope with evidence for windbraces in each bay. Long curved braces from heavily jowled posts to low tie beams. Queen struts added. Original heavy wall studs with edge holes and slots for wattle infill. Central rear winnowing door flanked by posts and tension braces. Asbestos sheet roof but irregular battens indicate thatch formerly. Porch roof and that of southern 5-bays reconstructed, the latter with diagonal corner ties and wrought iron brackets from posts to tie-beams. Interior of walls of this part also weatherboarded. A survivor of a medieval type of barn where storage is mainly in the roof.