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

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Summary

This 17th or 18th century cart shed was the oldest building of its kind recorded by the UEA Farm Buildings Survey.

Protected Status/Designation

Location

Map sheet TG10SE
Civil Parish BRACON ASH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

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.

  • --- Designation: English Heritage. 1990-2013. English Heritage Listing Notification. Notification. DNF10442.
  • <S1> Unpublished Document: UEA. 1987. UEA Historic Farm Building Survey..
  • <S2> Monograph: 1998. The East Anglian Farm, Understanding Listing.. English Heritage.
  • <S3> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1379810.

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Record last edited

Jul 25 2018 1:28PM

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