NHER 51884 (Building record) - Post-medieval agricultural buildings, 117 Station Road, Snettisham

November 2008. Building Survey.
Building recording undertaken prior to proposed conversion of farm buildings.
The buildings form an 'L'-shaped range comprising a barn, an attached shelter and an open-sided animal shelter. The main barn is rectangular and comprised a single room, open to the rafters. The predominant building material was carrstone rubble, with numerous variations in the stonework, suggesting numerous as-hoc repairs. Brick quoins were present at each corner, extending to the full height of the walls, with similar brickwork to either side of the large door in the western elevation. The brick appeared to be a late handmade type, probably dating to the later 19th century. The northern external gable end was of carstone at ground level, containing progressively more bricks towards the roofline. The roofline was topped by further carstone. The western elevation also contained occasional handmade brick, used randomly within the predominantly carstone rubble wall. Both the east and west elevations were topped by two courses of brickwork. The remnents of two opposing plinths within the building may represent a previous partition or first floor area to the north of the barn. Chalk drawings were noted on part of the internal western wall, and were apparently assoicated with village dances held in the barn in the second half of the 20th century.
A single-storey open-fronted shelter adjoined the southeast corner of the main barn, the barn forming its western wall. The eastern wall was composed of coursed carrstone and handmade brick. The northern side was open fronted, being supported on four iron stanchions and wooden fencing. An open-sided animal shelter was located in the south-east corner of the property, enclosed by wooden fencing. The walls were again constructed of carrstone and brick, and both the west and east elevations were weatherboarded at the upper part of the gable ends. Much of the animal shelter and open-fronted shelter were modern.
See report (S1) for further details.
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2016.336).
H. White (NLA), 20 May 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 June 2019.