Summary
Agricultural shelter and stable, mid-late-C19.
Reasons for Designation
This agricultural shelter of mid-late-C19 date is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
History
This small agricultural building is not present on the first edition 1:10,560 Ordnance Survey map of the area published in 1847. It is however, depicted on the second edition published in 1894 and was therefore constructed between these two dates. Drainage of the Lancashire Plain in general was largely completed in the mid-C19 aided by the use of steam pumps, and it became an important region of grain production. Croston Moss was one such area, owned by the De Trafford family and forming part of their Croston Hall Estate. The building is considered to have been constructed as a heated, seasonal shelter for labourers involved in ploughing the land, the stalls for horses having been subsequently inserted. Oral testimony from local residents records that in the mid-C20 it was still used by farmers as a lunch-time shelter, and that there were also several other examples of such buildings within the area; historic Ordnance Survey mapping confirms the presence of several former small rectangular buildings of a similar size set in similar locations. It is also recorded that the building became known locally as 'Bogger's Cabin', named after an itinerant labourer from Croston who worked on the local farms during the mid-C20.
Details
Agricultural shelter and stable, mid-late-C19.
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