Monument record PLS 041 - The Red Barn

18th C barn which was the location for the famous murder of Maria Marten in 1828. The main body of the barn had a half-hipped thatch roof, with a red pantilled lean-to structure on one side. This area appears to have been used to house cattle. There was also a tiled gabled porch covered in weatherboarding and a lean-to on the side of this was used for storing and threshing grain. After the murder people began to visit the site and take pieces of the barn as souvenirs. The barn stood in a ruinous state until 1842 when it was burnt down by an arsonist (S1).