NHER 55666 (Building record) - Cart shed at Church Farm, Hethel

Timber framed barn.
PrevPreviously recorded under NHER 29991.
See also secondary file for NHER 29991.
A. Cattermole (HES), 10 June 2011.

Tiebeams between expanded posts below principal rafters with mortises suggesting there were double arched braces to the ties. Some diagonal windbracing. Two levels of clasped purlins. Dated as 17th century. A larger and allegedly older barn was burnt down and only the plinth remains.

Lofted stable.
17th century, timber frame with wallposts and diagonal bracing; braced tiebeams. Stopped and chamfered beams to loft; possibly used as dwelling.

Cart lodge.
17th century, one side open; the other had wallposts with ornamented heads supporting arched braces to the tiebeams and wallbraces to the wallplate as well as inverted braces to the sill.
Oldest example of a cart shed found by the Farm Survey.
See (S1)
E. Rose (NLA) 9 September 1993.

However (S2) speaks of this as an unusually intact 18th century farm. [1] agrees.
E. Rose (NLA) 9 March 1998.

Cart shed listed Grade II* in 1999.
The cart shed is dated to the 18th century.
See (S3).
E. Rose, (NLA) 9 December 1999.