NHER 67942 (Building record) - Late post-medieval former farm buildings at Vicarage Farm

Group of late post-medieval barns at Vicarage Farm, all of which are shown on the Ordnance Survey First Edition Six-inch map (S1).

March 2013. Photographic Survey.
Photographic survey of barns at Vicarage Farm, ahead of their proposed conversion to residential dwellings. The group comprises two barns and a granary, plus a number of surrounding modern structures.
Barn 1 (TF 9887 2151) is a 'T'-shaped red brick structure with a pantile roof that displays evidence for three main phases of construction/adaptation. There was no access to the hayloft, but the structures that could be seen had clearly been rebuilt at some point. The eastern gable end has a dairy built against it south-western side. The original laths appeared to still survive within the roof of the dairy.
Barn 2 (TF 9887 2153) is a large red brick structure with a pantile roof that had been extended to the east (although this 'extension' appeared to be contemporary with the main structure as both buildings were keyed together). The north elevation of the larger structure rises to two stories, with owl hole openings at the apex of both gable ends. Beneath one of the owl holes is a cast iron plate depicting a crowned lion – the crest of the Milles family of North Elmham. The interior of this barn was open to the rafters and it is possible that the original laths survived. Modern breeze blocks on the southern elevation of the smaller 'extension' fit around posts which would have formed an open-sided structure.
The structure interpreted as a granary (TF 9890 2151) is a two-storey building with walls of reasonably well-coursed flint nodules with brick detailing and a pantile roof. The interior was not accessible due to the presence of livestock. A small collapsed north-to-south aligned barn immediately to the north of the probable granary was also recorded. This was subsequently demolished, presumably at the same time as the various modern structures were removed.
This group of buildings is of probable late 19th-century date, with no earlier building materials noted in their fabric.
See report (S2) for further details.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2024.145).
P. Watkins (HES), 6 February 2024.