Alston, L. (2014). Barn at Mill Hill Farm, Darsham, Suffolk, DAR 029: an historic building record . Ipswich: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. https://doi.org/10.5284/1039681. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Barn at Mill Hill Farm, Darsham, Suffolk, DAR 029: an historic building record
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Series:		 Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Mill Hill Farm lies on high ground 0.7 km south of Darsham church when surveyed in 1843 it was one of two rented holdings amounting to 205 acres on the estate of Charles Purvis. The former threshing barn is a late-Georgian structure well-built in red brick with a pantiled roof. It may be contemporary with the facade of the adjacent farmhouse which bears the date 1780. The front and rear walls are pierced by ventilation loops arranged in patterns of three-over-three and the central southern entrance is an original feature, although the present doors are C19th replacements. The roof structure is fully tenoned and pegged, consisting of staggered butt-purlins with primary rafter braces in the end-bays, and survives intact. The floors are concrete with no trace of the threshing floor that would have occupied the central bay. A lean-to rear porch with integral grain bins was added to the northern elevation in the mid-C19th, destroying the original rear door. Weatherboarded lean-to sheds lay on both sides of this porch, but only one now remains. Cartographic evidence and the erratic bonding of the barn's western gable suggest it was designed to abut a contemporary or earlier building, which was demolished in the late-C20th. During the late-C19th a grain floor was inserted into the southern half of the barn, supported by joists cut into the brickwork which have since been removed. The barn is of considerable historic and visual interest, reflecting the agricultural revolution of the late-18th and early-19th centuries.
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Author:		 L Alston
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Publisher:		 Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Suffolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2014
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Site: DAR 029 Mill Hill Farm, Westleton Road, Darsham
County: Suffolk
District: Suffolk Coastal
Parish: DARSHAM
Country: England
Grid Reference: 642100, 269200 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) THRESHING BARN (Monument Type England)
BUILDING SURVEY (Event)
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OASIS Id: suffolkc1-170414
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Note:		 SCCAS client report. Soft bound /A4/colour
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Created Date:		 01 Feb 2018