Archaeology Notes

Event ID 695372

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR88NE 30.02 87033 86649.

This home farm comprises a two-storeyed courtyard of buildings built by Joseph Gordon Davies (builder), London, for the Powlett Orde family in c.1840-1850. The courtyard is entered through a pend and has a bothy to one side. A barn takes up most of another side and there is a threshing machine in an adjoining room. There is also an upper-floor granary approached by external stone stairs. A house and milk shed occupy the side opposite the entrance, with byres and stables in the fourth range. A separate wing, probably dating from the 1880s, contains a seven-stall stable, a cart shed and a byre, as well as a building of similar date with a cobbled floor. This contains small stalls (possibly pig sties), each with a full-height door leading onto a yard. There is also a 1950s cattle shed. All buildings are built of rubble with slate roofs, except the 1950s cattle shed which is of brick with a corrugated-iron roof.

Information from RCAHMS (SS) 11 January 2006.