is confirmed by the work carried out by Sheridan Ebbage in that county.
Aisled barns are also to be found in South Yorkshire, the Pen – nines, especially in the Aire and Calder Valleys to the east and the Ribble Valley to the west, and parts of central Lancashire. These barns, like most of the timber-framed buildings in the area, have had their external walls rebuilt in local stone. The most notable example is the Long Barn, Whiston Hall, South Yorkshire; claimed to be the earliest seculiar building so far identified in Yorkshire, it may well, from the number of early timber features, be fourteenth century or even earlier. Another notable aisled barn is at Gunthwaite Hall, South Yorkshire, a barn comparable in size with those in the South and East. It is thought to be of sixteenth-century date; the lower part of the aisle walls are of stone with studwork above with diagonal framing to give a herringbone pattern. Another of note is at East Riddlesden Hall, Keighley, West Yorkshire. Examples of aisled barns are also known in Leicestershire – for instance the tithe barn at Newhouse Grange, Sheepy, probably early sixteenth century.
Most aisled barns follow the standard form of construction, with the aisle to both sides, but sometimes an aisle was provided along one side only. In many of the later aisled barns in Yorkshire, for instance, the wide side aisles, often as wide as the nave and with a separate access from the outside, housed cattle, it is believed. A similar
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