Dutch Barn Or Silage Clamp At Ngr 4080 4122, Lulham Court Farm

SO 44 SW

MADLEY CP

LULHAM Dutch barn at NGR 4080 4122, Lulham Court Farm

2/75

II GV

Dutch barn,1885. Red brick square piers carrying timber roof structure covered in pantiles. The square piers are arranged in three rows of seven, including a central colonnade, these with bricks missing throughout the length of each pier and regularly. The whole structure stands over a pit similar to that of the silage clamp. The peculiar nature of the central piers, which may be designed to provide some form of internal ventilation, suggests that this building may not have been intended as a simple Dutch barn.

MADLEY CP

LULHAM

2/75

Dutch Barn at NGR 4080 4122, Lulham Court Farm

The address shall be amended to read: LULHAM

Dutch Barn or silage clamp at NGR 4080 4122, Lulham Court Farm

The grade shall be amended to read: II* (Star)

The description shall be amended to read:

Dutch barn originally probably silage clamp. 1885. Red brick square piers carrying timber roof structure covered in pantiles. The square piers are arranged in three rows of seven, including a central colonnade, these with bricks missing throughout the length of each pier and regularly. The whole structure stands over a pit similar to that of the silage clamp (qv). The peculiar nature of the central piers, which may be designed to provide some form of internal ventilation, suggests that this building may not have been intended as a simple Dutch barn, but may have been an earlier and experimental precursor of the silage clamp (qv) close by. This is one of the earliest tangible survivals of the introduction of the concept of silage making in England.

The list was previously amended in respect of this entry on 20 May 1987.

Listing NGR: SO4080141223