Building record 495/5/2 - Outbuildings at The Plough

Outbuildings associated with the Plough Inn include a stable and coach house with hayloft above predating 1815. Adjacent stand later brick probable former pigsties or privies

{1} The former stable block appears to be a relict of the time when the property was a farm. The main stable block is a simple vernacular building with no embellishment and is purely functional. Constructed originally in local ironstone there has been extensive repair and alteration throughout.
The most extensive repair has been the rebuilding of almost the entire west gable end in red brick, the date of which appears to have been undertaken during the second half of the nineteenth century as indicated by the use of bullnose brick on the south-west corner. The use of blue slate on the roof also suggests re-roofing at the same date since this material became widespread in the same period after the building of the railway network.
All of the doors and doorframes with the possible exception of the door to the west store are modern replacements. Only one section of brick floor survives, the remainder is either cement or modern boarding. It is thought that all of the windows are replacements.
The two bricks sheds are present on the 1885 Ordnance Survey map indicating they were present at that date. Nothing survives from their original use.
Internally little survives in the main block apart from a single hanging peg in the store room and indications in the floor of the eastern room to show that it had been a stable for two animals. It is thought that the central room with the wide arched opening was originally open to the south and was used to store a coach or other wheeled vehicle, perhaps a simple farm cart. In the single upper room nothing remains to suggest it was ever anything apart from a hay loft. The roof may have been replaced during the second half of the nineteenth century.

<1> Prentice, J., 2016, A building recording survey of former stables at The Plough,Everdon, Northamptonshire, checked (Report). SNN110354.

<2> Crank, N. (Editor), 2017, South Midlands Archaeology (47), p. 37 (Journal). SNN111362.

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