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A late 18th century farmhouse, with 19th century additions. Constructed from coursed yellow limestone rubble with red brick dressings and a red brick, pantile roof. For the full description and the legal address of this listed building please refer to the appropriate List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest {1}
A standing building photographic survey was undertaken in advance of the redevelopment and conversion of a series of farm buildings at Cornhill Farmhouse, Broxholme. The buildings surveyed comprised two mains elements, the first of these being the farmhouse. This is a three storey structure constructed of course, roughly hewn limestone blocks bonded with soft, lime mortar with contained occasional charcoal flecks. The internal walls were rendered with a similar though degraded mortar. The upper stories were not inspected as stairways were unsafe. The house was laid out on a two bay plan, typical of the Lincolnshire vernacular. Thus, there are two rooms on each floor opening from a central entrance hall or stairway. The windows in the first two storeys were all set into the south wall, while the attic rooms each had a window in the gable end. A number of blocked openings (doors and windows) were noted. The gable ends exhibited a feature known as tumbling-in, where brickwork is laid at right angles to the slope of a gable forming triangles by tapering into horizontal course. This feature is typical of Lincolnshire architecture . The top of the two longer walls were also brick built, three courses in dentition bond serving as a kneeler on which the lower roof timbers rest. Sometime in the mid to late 19th century, a two-storey extension had been added to the building, a phase of activity that also saw the division of the property into two flats. There was also a small brick outbuilding added to the southeast corner of the building {2}
To the southeast of the farmhouse was a 'T-shaped' arrangement of brick buildings comprising a barn and other single and two storey buildings. The barn was aligned east to west with large double doors in the north and south sides, the northern being the full height of the building to facilitate the entrance of high-loaded wagons. In between these doors was a threshing floor of packed earth. The upper storey of the western side of the barn was ventilated by a series of gaps in the brickwork arranged in ornamental diamond patterns. There was also a blocked pitching door in the northern wall. The barn had been considerably modified from its original design in order to allow the use of steam power for threshing and probably also for other purposes. Two drive shaft holes had been let into the northern wall and re-enforced with timber. These would have transferred power from an external steam engine to a series of internal shafts or belts. To the west of the barn was a small single storey shed which had been roughly keyed into the existing brickwork. Internally, it was divided into two animal stalls with a wooden partition. A further range of buildings ran north to south, forming the western side of the complex. The northernmost portion comprised a single storey open shed; its western side supported by a series of bull-nosed brick pillars. The structure probably served as a wagon shed and was built in the late 19th century. The southernmost part of the range was of two storeys, the upper portion of which was not accessible. However, observation of the ceiling revealed it was of lathe and plaster construction, a feature common to granaries. Below this granary was a three-stall stable. This arrangement of a lath and plaster floored granary over a stable of this type is typical of the late 18th to 19th centuries {2}
Examination of the 1891 Ordnance Survey map demonstrates that this farm developed into a double-yard 'E' shaped plan, although only the barn and western ranges survive to the present day. The range of buildings surveyed is an example of a type of complex that developed nationwide through the middle of the 19th century but with some local peculiarities {2}
For the full description and the legal address of this listed building please refer to the appropriate List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. {3} | Subjects: | Building | Temporal: | 1775 - 2050 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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