Granary At Park Farm

OCKLEY

1896/0/10038 BEARE GREEN ROAD 07-AUG-07 Granary at Park Farm

GV II Cart shelter with granary above. Mid to late C18 with some C20 cladding and roof tiles.

MATERIALS: Timberframed on a brick plinth, clad in weatherboarding or vertical boards with half-hipped roof with C20 tiles.

PLAN: Two storey two bay open fronted cartshed with granary above, accessed internally.

EXTERIOR: The north-east side is open fronted on the ground floor, supported on square wooden posts with a small C20 casement window in the gable above. The south-west side is weatherboarded with a pedestrian door. The south-east and north-west sides are covered in vertical boarding.

INTERIOR: The ground floor has a midrail to the wallframe and exposed floor joists. A wooden step ladder of some age gives access to the upper floor. The roof structure is of staggered purlins with a ridgepiece and the nails and marks of laths to the rafters show the upper floor was originally plastered. The walls retain vertical boards but the grain bins have been removed.

HISTORY: This building is shown on the 1871 first edition Ordnance Survey map, but with a further footprint to the south-west which is no longer extant.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: A substantially intact example of an C18 combined open fronted cartshed and granary which is part of a farmyard group.

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