Listed Building: HORSE ENGINE HOUSE, 70 METRES NORTH WEST OF DAGWORTH HALL (280625)

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Volume/Map/Item 280625
Date assigned 15 March 1988
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The following entry:- OLD NEWTON DAGWORTH TM 06 SW WITH DAGWORTH Horse-gin house, 4/142 50m north-east of Dagworth Hall GV II shall be amended to read: TM 06 SW OLD NEWTON DAGWORTH WITH DAGWORTH Horse engine house, 4/142 70m north-west of Dagworth Hall GV II Horse engine house, now disused. Mid C19, for Thomas Woodward, tenant farmer. Flint rubble and gault brick; on one face the flintwork has been replaced by C20 brick. Slated roof. Octagonal on plan. Upper part of walls has chequer-pattern ventilation openings. C20 boarded doors to west. On the east face is a blocked arch, through which the drive was taken to an adjacent barn, now gone. The interior is empty. Horse engine houses are rare in East Anglia and this is believed to be one of oily 2 examples in Suffolk. OLD NEWTON DAGWORTH TM 06 SW WITH DAGWORTH 4/142 - Horse- gin house, 50m north-east of Dagworth Hall GV II Horse-gin house, early C19. Plastered and tarred clay lump on a tarred flint and brick footing; semi-circular plan at both ends of building. Slated roof, hipped at both ends. Boarded doors. Projecting on the west side is a 4-bay parallel extension open on posts below, with a loft under a slated lean-to roof: slated louvres in the side walls. Iron tie-rods at 1st floor level with circular plates. Interior not examined. A rare example in Suffolk of a horse-gin house, corn being more normally ground by wind or water power in the early C19 in this area. Listing NGR: TM0416061564

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Grid reference TM 04160 61564 (point)
Map sheet TM06SW

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