Sydling St Nicholas tithe barn: Dorset barns # 5

This is a Grade II listed building, dating from the 16th century, with its original walls and roof timbers intact. It's not well known and not even marked on the Ordnance Survey map.

The British Listed Buildings website gives it a technical write-up, which doesn't somehow do it justice in my opinion:

Tithe Barn. C16 with later truncation. Flint rubble walls,
with brick and stone quoins, two stage stone buttresses, right-
angled at west end. Corrugated iron roof on top of thatch, gable
ends. Porch on north side, bay 2, to one set of opposed entrances.
Further opposed entrance to bay 6. Now barn is 9½ bays, having
shortened at east end. Interior: aisled roof-construction, with
longitudinal and transverse bracing to the aisle posts, tie-beams
with queen-posts. Important aisled roof-construction, the most
westerly aisled barn in Dorset. Scheduled Ancient Monument, Dorset 105.

I was slightly shocked to see such a splendid old building in such a dilapidated state. Its only protection from the elements is an ancient corrugated iron roof (no longer on top of thatch) and anyone could get in and harm it if they wanted to.

Other views of the same barn:

from west
from the yard
from the church
from the field


Dorset barns # 4 and previous barns