Building record 130/38/2 - Barn to West of No.16 High Street

{2} C17. Coursed rubble; Welsh slated roof. 4 slit windows to south elevation. Included for group value.

{3} Two large barns on the southern side of the farmyard. The earlier, eastern barn is likely of a late 18th century date and is certainly present by 1830, appearing on the pre-enclosure map of this date. The barn is constructed of regularly coursed and roughly-shaped stone with a gable roof of Welsh slate. The structure has a large door opening with double doors facing the north yard. These are opposed by a smaller door opening also with double doors, which open to the south. Both door openings are flanked by vertical ventilation slots with splayed openings to the interior. Square, high level openings are also built into the east and west gable walls. An iron ring, connecting to an interior winding gear is fixed to the outside of the north wall, above head height. The interior of the barn was plastered with lime plaster to head height and the floor is of concrete. Remains of a belt drive were visible, probably for a threshing machine.
The later western barn, though constructed by 1830, is a larger and taller structure, the construction of which required several alterations to Barn 1. To accommodate the higher eaves and doorway of Barn 2, several new courses of stonework were added to the western end of the north wall of Barn 1 to raise a small section of the roof level with the new eaves. This barn is also constructed of regularly coursed, roughly-shaped stone with a gable roof of Welsh slate. Vertical ventilation slits were constructed at regular intervals around the barn . A pair of full height openings with double doors allowed air
movement through the structure to allow for threshing to take place. A threshing floor of stone pavers was built between the two door openings, flanked at a later date with blue brick paving. A threshing pit was dug into the threshing floor in the 1960s and a large ‘Alvan Blanch’ corn dryer (made in 1963) was
installed in the north end of the barn .

Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group, 1996-2013, Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group Newsletter, Issue 117 p.4 (unchecked) (Newsletter). SNN55360.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 2/68 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H17 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Bassir A., 2014, Historic building recording at Town Farm, 18 High Street, Brackley, Northamptonshire, p. 53 (Checked) (Report). SNN110057.

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