Barn Closes was originally two closes of arable land totalling 5 acres, situated on the south-east corner formed by Clews Lane and Port Lane. In the Tithe Award it was measured as 5 acres and 1 perch, on the OS map as 4.965 acres.

Occasionally referenced as "Barn Field".

In the first half of the 18th century, Barn Closes was owned by John Goreing along with the messuage and tenement called Cowhurst. When John Goreing died in 1755, he left Cowhurst and its lands (including Barn Closes) to his daughter Jane. Jane died the following year and the property passed to the children of her sister, Elizabeth, who was married to James Collyer. These children, Elizabeth, Ann, Sarah and Jane Collyer were aged from one to six years at the time.

In 1778, Elizabeth, Ann and Jane (all now married) passed their shares in the property to their sister Sarah Collyer, under the terms of an Indenture, by which Sarah would be paid the sum of £1000 and the property would eventually pass to the children of Elizabeth and her husband, Richard Piercy. In July 1800, Sarah having recieved the sum of £1000, James Piercy, the sole surviving child of Elizabeth and Richard took possession of Cowhurst and its lands and immediately sold it to James Living of Chertsey.

Cowhurst was obviously demolished between 1800 and 1804; in July 1804, James Living sold to John Churchill "all that barn and the land whereon a messuage formerly stood called Cowhurst and two closes called the Barn Closes". It is probable that field 198 on the Tithe Map, highlighted above, was originally three plots of land - Cowhurst and the two Barn Closes.

In 1808, John Churchill sold Barn Closes to John Lipscomb, who held it until his death in 1862.

John Lipscomb's executors were his nephews James Lipscomb and John Stedman and his friend Edward Chitty. In 1865, Edward Chitty took possession.

By 1915, Barn Closes was part of Port Lane Nurseries.