NHER 54189 (Building record) - 18th-19th century threshing barn and probable cart shed

May 2010. Building Survey.
Level 2 survey of two agricultural buildings prior to their proposed conversion.
The larger building is a threshing barn and may have belonged to a small farm. The large double doors were designed to allow the entry of carts carrying grain to be threshing. The cross walls are likely to be later insertions from the late 19th to 20th century after the barn function had altered. The mezzanine floor is unlikely to be original given its relationship with the later north cross wall but its construction suggests it could only have been used for storage purposes. The smaller structure is likely to have been a cart shed or a loose box to house cattle. The construction in clay lump and the form of bricks used for much of the plinth indicate that both buildings must date to the mid 18th century or later. The cartographic evidence suggests that the threshing barn may predate the 1842 tithe map although it may have replaced an earlier structure. The cart shed first appears on the 1st edition ordnance survey map. There is no indication that either building formed part of a larger group around a central yard and so either they constituted part of a small farm or were designed as satellite buildings for a much larger farm.
See report (S1) for further details.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2011.439).
S. Howard (NLA), 14 July 2010. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 10 December 2022.