The cleared barn

This is the back of our oldest barn. You can just see the lounge chimney of our house behind.
Two days ago you could not see this wall. There is still ivy on the roof which has to be removed very gradually. It will pull off some of the old clay roof tiles. The dark patch on the right of the roof is a hole. The roof beams are suspect too. Lots of the pointing has been dug out by birds and insects. It is probably a long way down the list but it will be repaired. You can see a chimney on the far left of the barn...this was the smithy for the farm.
You can just see a door on the left behind the bush. My plan is to open up this door and section off that end of the barn as a stable for animals..probably goats as they can access the orchard from here.
The various dark shapes on the ground are some of my chickens who love to scratch about in newly uncovered areas.
When our house is re roofed soon we plan to keep the tiles to repair the roof of this barn.
We are very fortunate to have several barns of different sizes. A total of  five. The other big long one is for the Gites.
I will add photos of the others.