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Description: | 61703
A substantial stone barn is located off Rectory Lane, which was being converted into a house in the early 1980s. It is of considerable interest since, as well as its original agricultural use, it had also been used as a gas works and a cornmill.
The barn itself was probably built in the eighteenth century but its industrial activities belong to the end of the nineteenth century. White's Directory of 1892 records for Branston that 'the village is much improved during the last 20 years and private gas works were erected by the late Hon. Alexander Leslie-Melville from which gas is supplied to many of the houses.' There were few remains of the gas works noted during the site visit in 1980, all retorts and purifying equipment etc. having been removed some time previously. The pits for the gas holders were, however, clearly visible as was the concrete base for the scrubber. It is thought that the gas works went out of use in about 1930.
The cornmilling equipment consisted of two pairs of stones. It is possible that the second pair of stones was reused from a watermill. Both pairs were water-driven by a steam engine in a lean-to on the end of the barn. The surviving chimney seems to relate to this engine, rather than the gas works. {1}{2}{3} | Subjects: | Building | Temporal: | 1700 - 1930 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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