Site Event/Activity record ESF20890 - Historic Building Recording, Barningham Park, Bardwell

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Location

Location Barningham Park
Grid reference Centred TL 942 778 (51m by 121m)
Map sheet TL97NW
Civil Parish BARDWELL, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK

Technique(s)

Organisation

Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

Barningham Park comprises a two barn complex; each consists of a threshing barn with attached animal yards and sheds. The southern barn is listed at grade II and dated in the Schedule to the early-18th century but is in fact an impressive six-bay 'Napoleonic barn' of circa 1800 with two threshing floors that was built to serve the new arable farm. The barn survives largely intact with a full complement of tie-beam braces and a butt-purlin roof. The external walls retain their distinctive 'two-tier' original cladding of render above weatherboarding. A series of cattle yards and sheds was added to both elevations in the mid-19th century when mixed animal husbandry replaced intensive cereal production. The northern barn was built in a single phase in circa 1850 and represents an elegant and unusually complete High Victorian yard complex of flint with glazed pantiles. It consists of a three-bay timber-framed threshing barn adjoining a yard enclosed by single-storied flint ranges to east and west. The western range contained stabling and the eastern range was probably designed as an open shelter but was enclosed in the late-19th century to form a pair of cow-sheds which retain good floors and boarded cattle stalls. The roof of the barn contains staggered butt-purlins with straight braces to its tie-beams in a manner more usually associated with the early-19th century but the building is not shown on the tithe map of 1839. It retains a brick threshing floor and a series of apotropaic marks on the internal plaster. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous No, Future No Associated Identifiers: Sitecode BAR 077 HER event no. BAR 077 NMR No. 1536101 Project Type: Building Recording Methods and Techniques: Measured Survey, Photographic Survey, Survey/Recording Of Fabric/Structure Reason for Investigation: Planning condition Site status: Listed Building Current Land use: Other 2 - In use as a building Monument Type(s)/Period(s): BARN Post Medieval Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): NONE None PROJECT LOCATION Area 2850.00 Square metres Grid Reference: TL942777 Point PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Authority Archaeologist and/or Planning Authority/advisory body Design originator: Edward Martin Director/Manager: David Gill Supervisor: Leigh Alston DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR Contents: other Media: Images raster / digital photography, Survey, Text PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR Contents: other Media: Report, Survey BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: The Barns, Barningham Park, Bardwell, Suffolk BAR 077 Historic Building Record Author(s)/Editor(s): Alston, L. Other Bibliographic Details: SCCAS Report Date: 2010 Issuer/Publisher: SCCAS Place of Issue or Publication: Bury St Edmunds Description: A4, comb bound, white cover with colour photo (also available as PDF)

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Unpublished document: Alston, L.. 2010. Historic Building Report: The Barns, Barningham Park, Bardwell..

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Farmstead: Barningham Park (Farmstead)

Record last edited

Feb 11 2020 11:15AM

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