Building record 7871/1/1 - Lodge Barn, The Stone Barn

A stone barn probably built in the early 19th century.

{1} The Stone Barn known as 'Lodge Barn' gives its name to the farm and is the oldest part of the complex. The outer walls are constructed of squared local ironstone. The interior is faced with red and orange/red bricks with three horizontal bands of timber set into the brickwork. The voussoirs over the cart entrances comprise alternate slabs of ironstone and grey laminated stone. The grey roof slates are laid on boards carried by oak trusses, the original lead flashings have been replaced with red ridge tiles. The barn is assymmetrical in plan and its W gable wall follows the plot boundary. There are opposing central cart entrances in the N and S walls. Both entrances have brick jambs which project into the barn and extend to the height of the tie beams. There is a doorway in the E gable wall another at the W end of the N wall and one at each end of the S wall. The eastern doorway was enlarged the opening was originally the same size as the doorway in the S wall. There is also a loft opening in each gable flanked by a pair of ventlation slits. The E loft door survives in situ. The lower part of two part stable door in the E gable. There are double doors surviving at each cart entrance . The iron hinges of the threshold doors survive and there is a groove in the stonework to accommodate these doors behind the main doors. Niches are placed to the right of every doorway and in each jamb of the cart entrances, most have timber sills. These sills have a deep internal chamfer to stop the contents of the niche fallling out. Every niche has a stone lintel measuring 0.32m wide by 0.32-0.38m high and 0.23-0.26 deep, and are positioned 1.30-1.45m above ground level. A brick partition wall divides off the east end of the barn, one brick thick in stretcher boind with wooden rails. The roof is hipped at both ends and suported by eight queen post roof trusses. The queen posts are secured to the ties by iron bolts. The walls are lined with brickwork most of which is in rat trap bond, at 0.93m above floor level a 90mm deep timber rail below which is brickwork in garden bond. There are two further rails higher up the brickwork all the rails and wall plates have edge halved scarf joints. The cobbled floor in the area east of the surviving partition wall has been partly covered with concrete. A strip of red brick paving runs alongside the partition wall. A rectangle of brick flooring over the cobbles in the NE corner suggests a former room. Various initials and the date 1851 are carved into the sill of the niche in the east jamb of the N cart entrance. There are three ranges of open-fronted cattle structures adjoining the stone barn. Each has a king post structure originally supported on timber uprights. In the east range a hay rack and manger stood in the E corner the holes are the only remianing evidence. The roadside wall abuts the gable wall of the West Range indicating it belongs to a later building phase. Dutch barns were built to house hay or straw. The Southern Dutch Barn consisted of four bays 4.45-4.62m wide the curved corrugated iron roof is supported by stell trusses consisting of three rods rising from the centre of a tie. The present stables building comprises a central pitch roofed structure of four bays seperated by wrought iron trusses on slender cast iron pillars. This building was originally erected in Bugbrooke and was transported and re-erected.

<1> Phoenix Consulting, 2003, Report on a Programme of Building Recording and Investigation Lodge Barn Farm Harpole Northamptonshire, Section 6.0 (checked) (Report). SNN103243.

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Oct 12 2022 12:42PM