BARN AT NORTH FARM

BARN AT NORTH FARM, SHROPHAM ROAD

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Overview

A barn, aligned north-east to south-west, mid to late C18 date with late C19 additions. The cartlodge to the rear and attached single storey shed to the south, which links the barn to the farmhouse, have no historic interest. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393507
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-2009
List Entry Name:: BARN AT NORTH FARM
Statutory Address:: BARN AT NORTH FARM, SHROPHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393507
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-2009
List Entry Name:: BARN AT NORTH FARM
Statutory Address 1:: BARN AT NORTH FARM, SHROPHAM ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BARN AT NORTH FARM, SHROPHAM ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:: Hockham
National Grid Reference:: TL 95492 92756

Reasons for Designation

The Barn at North Farm, Great Hockham is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a rare surviving example of a C18 clay-walled barn which reflects a vernacular building technique reaching into the medieval period. * It is substantially intact. * It compares well with other listed structures of similar date and construction nationally.

Details

38/0/10010

HOCKHAM SHROPHAM ROAD North of Farmhouse Barn at North Farm

29-OCT-09

II

A barn, aligned north-east to south-west, mid to late C18 date with late C19 additions. The cartlodge to the rear and attached single storey shed to the south, which links the barn to the farmhouse, have no historic interest.

MATERIALS Constructed of clay walls in the 'shuttered earth' method on a flint and brick plinth, externally covered in tar, with pantile roof covering.

PLAN Rectangular with an outshot and cartlodge to the rear.

EXTERIOR The barn has a gable roof, central double doors to the façade and rear and a weatherboarded apex at the south gable-end. A small outshot to the rear has shuttered clay walling on a brick plinth and may be later in date. Further to the rear is a late C19 open-fronted cart shed supported on timber posts and concrete plinths, with a part timber-framed wall to the north and brick and flint wall to the south, remodelled in the C20.

INTERIOR There are no interior fittings remaining. The walls retain evidence of the 'lifts' or phases in which it was constructed. The softwood roof structure is of thin scantling, modest in quality and probably early C19 in date. It comprises a plank ridge piece with butt purlins, collars and tie beams; the latter have bolted arched or knee braces. The arched braces to the wall plate at the rear entrance rest on slightly projecting timber corbels. The south gable end is of late C19 or C20 thin framing and the floor is concrete.

HISTORY The barn and farmhouse are depicted on the Enclosures Map of 1798 and an Estate Map of 1830. The OS maps of 1883 and 1905 indicate that the barn has been extended to the rear twice; the gable end to the south has been rebuilt with timbers of thin scantling clad with weatherboard. In the later C20 the range of farm outbuildings to the rear, which enclosed a small cattle yard, were demolished leaving only the farmhouse and barn; the latter is largely intact.

SOURCES English Heritage and Oxford Archaeology North 'Clay buildings on the Cumbria Solway Plain, Extensive Survey'. 2006, pp 12-17. Norfolk Records Office, 1798 Enclosure Map C/Sca/157. Norfolk Records Office, 1830 Estate Map PC 99.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The Barn at North Farm, Great Hockham is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a rare surviving example of a C18 clay-walled barn which reflects a vernacular building technique reaching into the medieval period. * It is substantially intact. * It compares well with other listed vernacular structures of similar date and construction nationally.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 507613
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.