NHER 52681 (Building record) - 1-7 Barnes Court, Barnes Road

March 2009. Building Survey.
Survey of various farm buildings at Barnes Court, prior to their conversion.
The surveyed buildings form part of a farm complex that includes a barn, cartshed and ranges of animal accommodation. The cartshed was constructed of a mixture of flint cobble and brickwork in both Flemish and English bond. The eastern side of the cart shed was open, with the roof supported by five timber stanchions on concrete plinths. The roof was of glazed pantiles. Two probable stables or loose boxes ajoined the cartshed at the northern end. Traces of brick and cobble floors were revealed beneath the concrete flooring. An east-west garage range joined on to the western wall of the stables, constructed of Flemish and English bond brickwork. The western wall of the garage formed the eastern wall of a north-south range of animal accomodation. The southern part of this range was open-fronted to the east, with the roof beign supported by wooden stanchions. Much of the internal surface of the western wall was rendered, although patches of brickwork in a stretcher bond were visible. Above the brick wallling, patches of unfired clay lump block were visible through a tar and plaster coating. Low vertical scars were noted in the southern and western wall, marking the location of former animal pens. Further animal accomodation was located to the north, again open-fronted at the east, partly rendered and predominantly in English bond. A breeze block wall with a wooden door divided this room from further animal accomodation, and although modern, traces of clay lump were visible, perhaps indicating an earlier wall. The main barn was two- storeys, and externally was entirely brick in Flemish bond. Internally, the barn was divided into two unequal rooms. The smaller of the rooms had numerous holes in the east and west walls, which marked the former position of joists forming an upper floor. A doorway with an external double brick segmental arch was noted on the western gable end, with a single segemental archway internally. A blocked doorway was also noted in this wall, although only the timber lintel was visible. The position of the lintel immediately beneath the lever of the rafters to the upper storey suggests that the upper floor may have been inserted and the arched section of the doorway infilled at the same time. Further partially blocked openings with segemental arches comprised a doorway in the southern wall and a window in the northern elevation. It seems likely that this infilling was also carried out on the insertion of the upper storey. Two wide doorways leading to a north-south range of possible fodder storage was also located in the southern wall. The fodder storage consisted of two single storey rooms of Flemish bond brickwork. The main barn, cartshed and animal accomodation all had rasied gables with brick kneelers, indicating that they are likely to be contemporary.
See report (S1) for further details.
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2016.329).
H. White (NLA), 7 July 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 June 2019.