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Barns in the High Weald
Barns are the dominant building of Wealden farmsteads. A barn for storing and processing the harvested corn crop over the winter months was the basic requirement of Weald farms, and corn could also be stacked in yards adjacent to the barn. In all cases the grain was beaten (threshed) from the harvested corn crop on an open threshing floor. Grain was stored in the barn or more usually the farmhouse. Barns may contain evidence of originally being multi-functional buildings that were sub-divided with partitions and floors to allow the housing of cattle as well as the corn crop and other produce. Such evidence should be recorded.
