Building record 4772/1/1 - Farm Buildings at Lower Lock Farm

Range of farm buildings, including barn. C.1840. Coursed squared limestone, hipped slate roofs. Lower Lock Farm was formerly part of the Grafton estate.

{1} Range of farm buildings, including barn. C.1840. Coursed squared limestone, hipped slate roofs. U plan. Principal range contains central 3-bay barn with opposed double-leaf doors with wood lintels, that to front with elliptical-arched head. Barn is flanked by single-storey 1-bay wings, each with stable door; doors have stone lintels and keyblocks. Single-storey return wings, each with 3-bay shelter sheds open to yard on segmental-arched brick arcades. Left wing has stabling at one end. Right wing has small 2-bay cart-standing open to field to right with timber post and lintels. Barn is brick-lined. Lower Lock Farm was formerly part of the Grafton estate. The layout of the farm buildings is similar, on a lesser scale, to that of the model farm buildings built 1839-44 for the 4th Duke of Grafton, as part of a large programme of agricultural improvements.

{3} Undated photo, also photo dated 24.08.2001;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 8/172 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F10 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Stoke Bruerne (Photographs). SNN113273.

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Nov 3 2022 12:27PM