[1] It is a Grade II* listed building,[2] and has been scheduled as an ancient monument.

The barn was built about 1500 by the canons of St Augustine's, Bristol while John Newland, (1481–1515) was the abbot.

Farmers were required to give one-tenth of their produce to the established Church.

They have undertaken restoration work to the Buttresses and other stonework, but need to manage this to reduce the effects on the bat population which includes common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus), soprano pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) and brown long-eared (Plecotus auritus) which nest in the roof and cracks in the stonework.

[7] The medieval timber framed roof of the barn is of ten bays,[8][9] and is supported by buttresses.