Cowhouse And Shelter Shed, Callow Farm

DYMOCK - SO 73 SW

5/60 Cowhouse and shelter shed, Callow Farm

GV II

Cowhouse, shelter shed and store. Store C17, much altered C19, rest third quarter Cl9 for Beauchamp Estate. Brick walls, brick- nogged timber framing to part of store; tiled roofs. L plan, single storey, main ranges 9 bay, with 3-bay lofted return on end. Cowhouse range, right return boarded door to feeding passage at rear, shuttered window centre, both cambered brick arches, 1861 datestone centre. To yard, brick return on right, 3-bay front, timber posts at ends and to bays, curved braces to wall plate: later infilled centre post and boarded doors to within 600mm of eaves. To left 2 brick-walled bays, centre boarded door, cambered brick arch. Further 3-bay cowhouse left, and single-bay brick front with door, both as before. To left 7-bay open-fronted shed for loose cattle, posts and braces as first cowhouse, left open. To left at end 2-bay brick-walled box and passage across building with door to rear. Return part timber-framed, end brick: external stairs to loft. Internally, both ranges king-post trusses with iron bolts, one-pair purlins, plank ridge. Boarded doors from central feed preparation room to front of cowhouses both sides, openings to feeding passage rear. Left cowhouse part of brick trough and paving survive, with additionally iron water trough and pipe in loose box at end. Corner room door to feeding passage, front of open shed and double doors to rear: for roots. Internal buttresses at bay divisions in shelter shed: latter slightly later than cowhouse in date. Forms group with house and barn (q.v.), completing yard enclosure with latter.

Listing NGR: SO7211931242