NHER 48934 (Building record) - Fersfield Lodge Farm

Brick barn with queenpost roof and lozenge ventilation holes. Threshing floor was formerly lower than the steads to each side. Horse shelters with yards. Clay lump pony stable with gighouse. Cartlodge/granary of timber and clay lump, the granary aisled with partitions corresponding to the floor below. This is the most interesting building on site. It dates from around 1850 but the remainder of the farm dates from the 1870s when it was constructed as a bullock fattening farm, the bullocks being kept in yards rather than loose boxes until they had teeth. There was also a bull pen.
The farmhouse is 17th century timber framed and clay with new gable wall.
(S1) in file.
However there are a number of interesting features not mentioned by (S1). Buildings on the site of some of the present buildings are shown by (S2) which depicts the farm as straddling the parish boundary which is also the hundred boundary. Where 2006 GIS shows the farmhouse, set across the boundary, there is a large pond depicted; to the west is shown a wedge-shaped farm building and to the south in Fersfield (now Bressingham) parish is a large house, presumably the original Lodge. But (S3) does not show this, instead a house is shown on the site of the wedge-shaped building. Given the description of the house in (S1) is the present house post-1986?
E. Rose (NLA), 25 September 2006.