Site Event/Activity record ESF25999 - Monitoring, Goldings, Stonham Aspal

Planning permission was granted to demolish a fire-damaged wing of 'Goldings', formerly Golding's Farm, and to replace it with a slightly larger range on a similar footprint. The building was based around an early post-medieval timber-frame but renovation in the 1980s had disguided its historic appearance, and this together with its isolated position meant that it had been omitted from the schedule of Listed Buildings. Historic building recording and monitoring was conducted. The building was demolished and the floor slab broken out and removed. The building footprint was hand-cleaned, a plan of the site was drawn and any features excavated before the site was stripped by machine to expose the geological surface below. There was no indication of an occupation prior to the construction of Goldings and all the recorded features on the site were associated with the former standing buidling (S1).