Building record 5485/1/2 - Farmbuildings, Manor Farm

{1} The buildings forming plots 3 and 4 are in a U-shaped courtyard plan with continuous ranges of buildings on three sides and a wall enclosing the fourth side. The yard would have served as a stock yard for cattle. The single storey buildings around the yard would have mostly been for animal housing. The eastern range contains pigsties. In the north and west range probably consisted of cow houses and stables. The present feeding passage in the north range appears from the layout of the doors to probably replicate an original arrangement, suggesting that the north range would have housed cows in both an enclosed and an open-fronted sheltershed. The western range currently includes one compartment with a feed trough and hayrack and may have originally included stabling. The barn has opposing double doors, making it suitable for a threshing barn.

<1> Phillips, M., 2015, Wood Burcote Manor Farm, Plots 3 & 4, Wood Burcote, Northamptonshire: Historic Building Recording (Report). SNN110078.

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Jul 27 2015 3:35PM