You’ll just have to accept it – barns ARE beautiful!

They may be functional structures… but Derbyshire’s barns are central to so many of our finest landscapes, as these pictures by Michael Cummins clearly illustrate.

WHAT cannot be disputed is that Derbyshire, like much of the rest of the county, is covered in barns. And what is equally true is that many of them are, to put it mildly, in a state of disrepair…