The Motor House at Little Barford

The Motor House at Little Barford is a motor house with attached workshops and a covered forecourt, likely built between 1910 and 1924.

It is constructed from gault brick laid in monk bond, featuring an oak framed roof and forecourt, with roofs covered in corrugated metal sheets. The building is a single-storey structure consisting of two parallel ranges, each with a pitched roof that ends in gables covered in corrugated sheet metal.

The eastern range is four bays wide and two bays deep, with the southern bays forming the sheltered forecourt, supported by an oak frame and a king post roof. The forecourt has a brick paved floor and a short wall on the south side. On the north side, there is a brick-walled area with a doorway leading onto the forecourt, topped with a red brick lintel. This section features three-light timber mullion windows on the east and north elevations, each with arched red brick lintels.

The western range is four bays wide and one bay deep, facing the forecourt with three wooden double doors that have strap hinges and two glazed upper panels. The rest of this range is brick built, featuring red brick arches over the windows (one on the east and two on the west elevations) and a doorway on the left side of the south elevation.

Inside, the garage has the largest volume, providing an open space for three cars beneath a king post roof structure. There is an inspection pit at the southern end of the garage, equipped with a basic hoist. The workshop on the south side of the garage retains an original fitted workbench, and there are shelves in one of the rooms on the north side of the forecourt.