| Abstract: |
The Historic Building Recording (HBR) was carried out in order to discharge Condition 3 of a Grant of Conditional Planning Permission (PA21/06941) issued alongside a Grant of Listed Building Consent (PA21/08006) for the conversion of two Grade II Listed farm buildings (a barn and a cartshed) within a disused farm yard at The Grambla, Trewoofe, Lamorna, TR19 6PA.
The recording work involved the following stages.
1. Historical research
2. Historic building recording
3. Archive creation
4. Report preparation
5. Deposition (of report & archive)
The following key sources were consulted.
•1838 Tithe Map and Apportionment Survey
•Historic Ordnance Survey mapping - 1802 2 ½”drawings (for first series 1” map); 25” to 1 mile map & map revisions (1878, 1908 , 1947 & 1964) - sourced online from the British Library, National Library of Scotland and Cornwall Council’s interactive map
•Modern map base & 2000/2005 aerial photo base (Cornwall Council online interactive map)
•Historical & Landscape Assessment layers of Cornwall Council online interactive map – for archaeological sites & monuments, listed buildings, aerial investigation, historic landscape characterisation
•Heritage Gateway (online database) – for Historic Environment Record (HER) descriptions of archaeological sites in vicinity
•Listed Building descriptions of the two farm buildings at The Grambla
Historic building recording consisted of the following.
•Making a detailed digital photographic record of the Listed barn and cartshed, together with their context and other historic farmyard features (farmyard walls, gateways & gates, entrance to walled trackway).
•Identifying some additional historic detail to be Incorporated into the architect’s (existing) plans
•Making a detailed plan of the cartshed floor, in order to record and aid interpretation of the surviving paving and other features.
A total of 133 digital colour photographs were taken. The photo locations were marked on copies of the architect’s (existing) plans, a catalogue was made of the full collection (Appendix 1), and a comprehensive sample has been used to illustrate this report (Figures 27-67).
The cartshed floor was planned at 1:20 scale using a tape and offsets. The Grambla farmstead is a rare survival of two essential farm building types (threshing barn and cartshed) that once belonged to a more complete farmstead including a possible C17 farmhouse, all built on high ground overlooking open countryside. The buildings are unspoiled vernacular examples of their type and contain some interesting character and functional features.
The barn has hen nesting boxes, rare (possibly unique) ventilator slits, and characterful granite 2-phase steps up to its threshing floor. The cartshed has many interesting internal features that tell the story of its former uses. Together, their survival, against a background of so many recent changes to our agricultural settlements, adds greatly to their significance. |
