arrangement can be found in Lancashire. In Sussex and Surrey too some barns appear to have been designed to house cattle. In West Sussex and east Hampshire another type of aisled barn was common, in which the aisles continued around the ends as well, forming a continuous eaves broken only by the tall barn doors. Generally these barns were of three bays with a central threshing floor and because of their plan and construction could not be extended as other types of barn could by simply adding a bay.
Barns comparable with those of aisled construction were also built of cruck construction. Pride of place must go to the early fourteenth-century barn at Leigh Court, Hereford & Worcester, with eleven cruck trusses – the gable trusses reaching only to collar level, so the roof is half-hipped, making it the largest cruck building known to survive, with a width of some thirty-four feet and a length of over 150 feet. The two waggon porches are also of cruck construction. Siddington tithe barn, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, may well have the oldest timber frame in England, being thought to date from the twelfth century and having all the features, the lap-joints and scissor-braces, associated with the earliest timber-framed buildings. Originally there were seven bays and eight trusses, two of which were aisled and the rest base-cruck. The walls of the barn are stone, with
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single barn with one threshing floor
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asymmetrical barn С with unequal ^^bays
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