Building record 6002/1/6 - Cart hovel and entry to yard

{1} Closing the bottom of the yard, between the two foddering sheds, is the cart shed, constructed as the foddering sheds but with its ‘back’ facing onto the yard and an open ‘front’ onto the fields. The roof is supported on three Tuscan, brick pillars but as the land falls away quite steeply, they are taller and larger diameter than those in the foddering sheds. At some later date, probably the early 20th century, the area between the pillars was filled in with stone. There is a gap shown alongside the cart hovel in the c1770 plan to enter and exit the yard. Whilst the plan gives no indication, it would seem that the present arrangement of the cart hovel roof extending over it to provide a covered entry was original.

<1> Conlon R., 2005, Hunsbury Hill Centre, Northampton: Historical Report, (checked) (Report). SNN105421.

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Nov 3 2010 3:01PM