Cowhouse at Tidbury Green Farm

A cowhouse, dating from the C18 with remodelling in the C19, used latterly as a milking shed.

MATERIALS: red brick with plain clay tile roof.

PLAN: a long rectangular plan, running N-S, divided into two ranges.

EXTERIOR: the building is a single storey, in two ranges. To the S (left), the range has a wide central doorway with a C20 door, flanked by small, square, fixed-pane windows dating from the C20. The eaves have brick cogging. The N range (right) has a wider, central double doorway with C20 doors in an earlier brick doorway, flanked by rectangular, fixed-pane windows set within rebuilt walls. The gable ends have brick cogging running up to the apex, with a small, square window in the gable.

INTERIOR: the interior of each range is a single space, with a wide, brick-built channel in the floor, and painted and plastered walls. The pegged roof trusses are made from large-section timber, limewashed. They are formed from chamfered tie beams, principal rafters which curve around the ends of a short collar and are slightly truncated above, and angled queen struts. The single purlins rest on the principals and carry common rafters to a ridge plank.