Threshing Barn And Attached Horse Mill At New Breaks Farm

SE 82 SW TWIN RIVERS KINGS CAUSEWAY (north side, off) Whitgift 1/32 Threshing barn and attached horse mill at New Breaks Farm

GV II

Threshing barn and attached horse mill. Early-mid C19 with later C19 addition blocking to horse mill. Brown brick with slate roof to barn, pantile roof to horse mill. Rectangular on plan, barn with horse mill attached to west end. Forms north side of foldyard, adjoining stable/granary range to south west (qv). Barn: 3-storeys height; 9 external bays, with projecting full-height entrance bays to north and south. South side: blocked waggon entrance with board door and 4-light window beneath original timber lintel and segmental stretcher relieving arch. Side bays each have 3 tiers of 4 breather slits, apart from lower left which has a board door to left beneath segmental stretcher arch with 3 slits to right. Stepped eaves. Hipped roof. North side of barn has similar waggon entrance with recessed 2-fold board door beneath timber lintel and segmental relieving arch. Side bays have 2 lower tiers of 4 slit breathers to each side, and upper tier with segmental-headed hatch to left flanked by single breathers, and a pair of similar glazed hatches and single breather to right. Lower left section obscured by later lean-to which is not of special interest. Horse mill: single-storey with canted west end. Plinth, piers at angles with recessed blocking between, board doors to north and south, and inserted double board doors to west, hipped roof. Interior not inspected. The largest and most impressive of the barns in the Marshland region of the lower Trent and Ouse valleys, reflecting the high productivity of the newly enclosed and reclaimed land.

Listing NGR: SE8031920867