Greatham Manor Farm Granary Store

Greatham Manor Farm Granary Store is probably of the late 18th century, with alterations and additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. It likely began as a barn and was subsequently adapted as a granary store with a cart house and stable to the north by 1875.

The building is constructed of yellow brick in English bond on its south-west side, while the remainder is timber-framed and clad in weatherboarding. The roof is half-hipped and covered in peg tiles, resting on a plinth wall built of a mixture of brick, random stone, and chalk blocks.

The plan consists of nine bays, measuring 101 feet in length and 24 feet 6 inches in width. Evidence suggests cart entrances existed in the third and seventh bays on both sides. A full-height partition divides the southern six bays from the northern three bays, with a raised floor in the southern six bays only.

On the south-west side, a central cambered pedestrian entrance is framed in red brick and accessed by three stone steps, leading to a 19th-century boarded door. The side elevations are weather-boarded and include some 20th-century door and window openings. The north-east elevation has a small, central 20th-century window opening.

The interior brick wall on the south-west side is reinforced with dragon ties. The timber frame incorporates stud and diagonal bracing, with five bay posts that appear to be jowled, suggesting they may have been reused. Tie beams are supported by curved braces, and the roof structure features raking struts to the side-purlins, with the rafters linked by ridge-pieces. The fifth truss from the south has additional queen struts and a collar in addition to the raking struts, while the sixth truss features a full-height truss and boarded partition. The raised softwood floor in the southern six bays is supported by stone and concrete staddle stones and brick piers at its northern end. The three northern bays have later, additional pairs of unfinished pole struts supporting a second, higher row of side-purlins. These bays lack raised flooring, and access points in the side walls suggest they functioned as a 'Cart Horse Stable’, as indicated on plans from 1875.