NHER 22561 (Building record) - Lodge Hill Conduits and Farmhouse

Water conduit.
Series of underground brick chambers and tunnels, probably of 17th century date, extending into hillside. Apparently designed for filtering and providing flow of water, but reason for positioning here is obscure, but may have served a dairy.
See report in file (S1). These discoveries are also noted in (S4).
E. Rose (NAU), 8 May 1989.

1997. Building Survey.
Survey by Royal Commission for Historical Monuments.
Examination of both conduit and adjacent house shows that house has interesting 17th century origins, extended 18th and remodelled 19th century.
See report (S3) for further details.
E. Rose (NLA), 4 December 1997.

October 1984. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Lodge Hill Farm House, Ken Hill.
Farmhouse. Second half of 17th century, extended 18th century, remodelled 19th century. Carstone with brick dressings, the quoins and bands 17th century, the openings 19th century, pantile roofs, part missing. Three bay two storey lobby entry plan. Two ground and three first floor windows with brick dressings, all 19th century sashes with glazing bars, except central first floor casement, and obscured by corrugated iron sheeting. Brick quoins, rustication to central boarded door. Brick coped gables, steeply pitched roof replaced around 1946, original central stack with four rectangular shafts but with common brick coping. Rear has one blocked brick dressed long and low window opening. Original central first floor opening, those to left and right altered. South gable has stitching of larger earlier window openings, at ground floor with inserted narrower brick dressed sash window, at first floor stitching only, at attic blocked earlier window. North gable has two blocked attic openings. Attached to north, 18th century cottage with three blocked brick dressed windows. Off-centre door, steeply pitched roof, renewed around 1946, end gable and ridge stacks.
Interior; left hand cell, cased axial beam,jointed into transverse beam over stack, chamfered with run-out stops. Similar transverse beam to right of stack in situ but covered. Reveals of original first floor openings apparent. Two sets of 19th century stairs behind stack.
Information from (S2).

1987 survey by UEA Farm Buildings Survey looked only at the barn, noting it as before 1819 with a large fossil ammonite built in. (S1) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 2 April 2007.#