NHER 32908 (Building record) - Jewson's Barn

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Summary

Jewson's Barn is a late 18th or early 19th century barn. It is built of brick, has ventilation slits and cart doors and contains reused medieval stonework. The southwestern part of the barn is a now cottage; this section was converted in about 1860. In 1999 an evaluation excavation revealed two medieval pits and Late Saxon and medieval pottery sherds were collected.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG10NE
Civil Parish	CRINGLEFORD, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Full Description

Barn.
Brick with ventilation slits, cart doors and inserted 20th century windows. Outshut dated 1797, similar to plinth of barn
containing reused medieval stonework. Other parts barn probably slightly later brick. Roof with collars and four orders wedge tenoned butt purlins; tiebeams were between trusses, arch braced and wallposts on corbels. Arched braces to plate in south east cart door. At southwest end, a cottage, probably formed by converting one end of the barn and infilling a second pair of cart doors, the southeast of which still has its arched braces visible, in about 1860.
Information from report (S1).
E.Rose (NLA), 10 September 1997.

December 1999. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed house site beside barn. Contexts 2 to 28.
Two pits with medieval pottery found; one also contained a Late Saxon sherd.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
E. Rose (NLA), 9 February 2000. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 April 2015.

Associated Sources (4)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF86516 Unpublished Report: Heywood, S. 1997. Jewson's Barn and Cottage, Newmarket Road, Cringleford. Building Report.
<S2> SNF54252 Unpublished Contractor Report: Birks, C. 2000. Report on an Archaeological Evaluation at Land Adjacent to Jewson's Barn, Cringleford. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 478.
<S3> SNF82377 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 2000. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1999. Norfolk Archaeology. XLIII Pt III pp 521-543. p 525.