Building record 6559/1/8 - Probable cow house

{1} The exterior walls are again coursed and roughly squared local stone with red bull nosed brick corbels. The door and window reveals are again red bull nosed bricks. The roof is again modern Welsh Slate and the roof timbers are also modern. There is a cross passage adjacent to the western partition wall providing access between the
farmhouse to the south and yard 1 to the north along with another central door. All appear to be original openings and the timberwork may also be original.
The limited internal evidence, most notably the floor draining towards the central door suggests the building was originally a cow house with stalls along the northern wall. Built into the northern wall there are a number of timbers; the exact use of these is unclear, but it is likely that the timbers are the remains of the feeding rack at the head of the stalls. The timbers themselves appear to be reused as some have chamfered edges suggesting they were originally the tie beams of roof trusses. There are tree candle niches, two each side of the central door and a third to the left of the door in the east wall.

<1> Richards, G., 2013, An Archaeological Standing Building Survey: Heathencote Farm, Heathencote, Northamptonshire, p.6 (checked) (Report). SNN109592.

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Jun 20 2014 3:06PM