Listed Building: Threshing barn and attached structures at Pond Farm, Stoven (DSF18752)

A late-C18 threshing barn with later stables and attached structures from the mid- and late-C19 and the second half of the C20. MATERIALS The barn is built of red brick and timber with a roof covered in corrugated metal sheets. The later extensions are built of brick and the C20 barn is steel framed. PLAN The threshing barn retains its threshing floor but has lost part of its porch. The later extensions have no formal plan. EXTERIOR The west elevation faces onto the farmyard and is four bays long. The northern two bays are built of brick with a high plinth laid in English bond while the upper wall is laid in monk bond. There are two narrow ventilation slits. A pair of large wooden doors lead to the threshing floor. At the right-hand-side the wall is weatherboarded. On the left-hand-side the wall abuts the larder attached to the farmhouse. The north elevation of the barn extends beyond the larder of the farmhouse and is built of red brick laid in monk bond. The east elevation of the barn has been extended outwards beyond the threshing porch to form a lean-to extension roofed in slate and walled in red brick; it includes an open-sided shelter or store. Projecting east of barn is a stable or shelter constructed between 1838 and 1883. The walls are built of red brick laid in monk bond and the hipped roof is covered in glazed pantiles. There is a dentil eaves cornice. There are no windows on its north or east sides. It adjoins a large steel-framed barn clad with corrugated sheets. This post-1945 barn is open-sided to the south. At the west end of the post-1945 steel-framed barn a corner is formed with the threshing barn, within which stands a small brick-built structure with a pantiled roof. INTERIOR The threshing barn retains a brick threshing floor, either side of which the floors have been covered in concrete. The original roof structure remains and is formed by common rafters with tie beams at each bay, butt purlins, and collars at each principal rafter. The form of the threshing porch, part of which is separated from the barn by original weatherboarding, has been obscured by the creation of later extensions on the east side of the barn. These contain some surviving stall partitions and mangers indicating their use as stables, though other areas are more open and may have been cattle shelters or other stores. The large C20 barn contains no internal fixtures.