INTERIM REPORT ON THE TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF OAK TIMBERS FROM TWO BARNS AT HEADLEY HALL FARM, UPPER HEADLEY, NEAR THORNTON, WEST YORKSHIRE
Author(s): Ian Tyers
The farmstead of Headley Hall Farm comprises a particularly fine Elizabethan hall house and a number of farm outbuildings surrounded by a curtilage wall. Much of the complex is listed Grade 1, since it represents an unusually complete example of an early farmstead. Two barns within the complex are due to undergo English Heritage grant-aided repairs in the near future. Tree-ring sampling of both these structures was commissioned to inform repair decisions. The results indicate the smaller un-aisled barn is of early seventeenth-century date, whilst some, currently limited, sampling of the larger aisled barn indicates it is of late sixteenth-century date. Improved access during the restoration programme may enable further sampling of the aisled barn which may both improve the precision of the date of construction of this barn and help indicate whether the aisles are original or a later modification of the structure.
- Report Number:
- 10/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 16
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
