NHER 44720 (Building record) - Barn north west of Church Farmhouse, The Street, Fritton

17th/18th century timber-frame barn, plastered, weatherboarded and clad in corrugated asbestos. Steeply pitched gable ended roof with corrugated asbestos. Wagon doors on south side. Row of owl holes in plaster on south side.
Information from (S1).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 7 June 2006.

Barn restored in 1999. South wall now plastered, north wall plastered to west of weatherboarded outshut. Both plastered areas have a row of teardrop-shaped holes below the eaves which must be the “owl holes” mentioned above; but these cannot be owl holes as more than one owl would not live in a barn. Local belief is that they were for encouraging martins, swallows or swifts to make nests there.
E. Rose (NLA), 8 January 2007.