Monument record 3136/2/9 - Cart shed and possible cow house

{1} Cartsheds. Early C19. Regular coursed limestone with slate roof. 3-bay range of cartsheds with haylofts over. Shallow brick arches with casement windows above. 2-window range of mid C19 stables to left and cartshed to right. Hipped and gabled roof. Single-storey C19 wing projects to far left. Included for group value.

{4} Long single storey stone built building with a corrugated asbestos roof. The building abuts on to a bullock yard. There is a central doorway leading on to the farm yard and stable doors on yard side. Mid-nineteenth century and contemporary with the granary and stone building. The building may have started out as a cow house.

{5} Trial pit 15 exposed two courses of wall below the surface of the topsoil 0.22m deep, built directly onto the natural clay and ironstone.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 5/195 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G05 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100394.

<3> ELLISON M., 1997, SMR Report Form, (checked) (SMR Report Form). SNN49112.

<4> Giggins B., 1990, Chester Farm, Irchester, Architectural Survey, p.9 (checked) (Report). SNN71035.

<4> Giggins B., 2011, Chester Farm, Irchester: Farm Buildings Appraisal and Interpretation Potential, p.9 (checked) (Report). SNN107469.

<5> Townend, P., 2012, An Archaeological Watching Brief at Chester House Farm, Irchester, Northamptonshire, p.6 (checked) (Report). SNN109213.

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Feb 26 2014 11:11AM