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This timber-framed building consists of three parts, the oldest and largest part is a barn constructed using crucks (large curved timber blades reaching from the ground to the apex of the roof). Corn would have been unloaded through the small central doors and threshed by hand with a flail and cleaned by throwing the ears up in the through-draught provided by the open doors. The straw would have stored in some of the bays. Around 1600 a smaller building was erected nearby on high stone plinth and later linked to the barn, it used timbers from an older building. Carpenters' marks can be seen on many of the timbers, showing that the building was first made on the ground in the carpenter's yard, the timbers numbered, and then finally re-assembled on site. The circular mound outside holds a horse-engine used for driving a threshing machine.

A cruck and timber-framed barn created by linking two separate structures. The earliest part, a cruck-framed barn, dates from about 1550. A timber-framed structure was built nearby about 1600, the two later being linked to form a single building with a large central open bay.

The walls are wattled using flat chestnut laths woven vertically through horizontal staves. The building is thatched with wheat straw.

Carpenters' marks can be seen on many of the timbers, showing that the building was first made on the ground in the carpenter's yard, the timbers numbered, and then finally assembled on site.

The circular mound outside holds a horse-engine used for driving a threshing machine.