NHER 14226 (Building record) - Late 18th of early 19th century stock house

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Summary

This is a type of late 18th or early 19th century animal shed unique to East Norfolk, with a central turnip shed and the animals kept on either side.

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Location

Map sheet TG31SE
Civil Parish ACLE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

The farm possess a stock house of a type unique to East Norfolk marsh fringes, forming a central turnip house with pentises each side in which the bullocks stand with their heads through arches into the centre.
See (S1).
E.Rose (NLA) 16 January 1995.

English Heritage Listing:
Bullock shed, Whites Farm.
Bullock Shed. Late 18th or early 19th century. Red brick in Flemish bond with hipped thatched roof Pantile roofs to outshut aisles. Two storeys. Rectangular in plan with roof of four bays; four bays formed by round-arched arcades opening into pens. Segmental-arched cart entrances to north and south faces, the former partly bricked in with a late 19th century or early 20th century buttress to one side. Close tumbling in to lean-to parapets. Stable doors to both aisles. Western lean-to, southmost bay rises more steeply than the rest and incorporates a covered staircase. Single windows under eaves in centre of each elevation, that to east blocked. Interior: provision for timber boarding to interior faces of brick arcade piers; only surviving board with Victorian period graffiti. First-floor with central trap door. Double roof with collars plus two tiers of wedge tenoned butt purlins. Lean-tos with tie and strut roof partly rebuilt, and wedge tenoned butt purlins.
Information from (S2).

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Publication: Wade-Martins, S.. 1994. Norfolk Farmsteads Thematic Survey. 28, 40.
  • <S2> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England.

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Record last edited

Aug 8 2014 3:01PM

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