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Archaeological Stranding Building Recording Brickhouse Farm, Chargrove Lane, Up Hatherley, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 4XD |
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The aim of the project is to undertake a programme of ASBR of the curtilage listed outbuilding at Brickhouse Farm Chargrove Lane Up Hatherley Cheltenham to Historic England/RCHME Level 2, as detailed in Understanding Historic Buildings – A guide to good recording practice (Lane 2016) to allow for the preservation by record of all standing building fabric, fixtures and fittings of historical interest that will be removed or substantially altered by the proposed development. The programme of Level 2 Archaeological Standing Building Recording undertaken by Border Archaeology with regard to the traditional farm outbuilding at Brickhouse Farm, Chargrove Lane, Up Hatherley, Cheltenham (Glos.) has reached the following conclusions briefly detailed below:
The building in question consists of a low, single-storey L-plan outbuilding of probable 19th century date situated to the SE of the Grade II listed late 18th century farmhouse at Brickhouse Farm. Historical evidence shows that Brickhouse Farm was primarily a pastoral farmstead and this is evidenced by the presence of several ranges of outbuildings associated with livestock accommodation.
The L-plan outbuilding, which is in a heavily dilapidated condition, comprises two distinct elements, a four-bay gabled range aligned NE-SW and largely of timber-framed construction with a brick rear wall which appears to represent evidence of a later rebuilding, together with a two-bay gabled barn attached to the SW end of this range, oriented NW-SE and chiefly of brick construction.
The outbuilding as a whole has been subject to considerable modern alteration associated with its conversion to usage as a garage, workshop and storerooms and is in a heavily decayed state with the NE gable end having completely collapsed and the rear (SE) wall in a very poor state of repair. The NW gable end has been rebuilt and a set of modern double doors inserted. Two of the internal subdivisions, represented by walls of brick and concrete breezeblock construction, are evidently modern insertions but probably replaced earlier partitions.
Both ranges appear to have been in existence by the late 1880s as they are shown on the OS 1st edition 25-inch map of 1887 which distinguishes between the timber-framed and brick construction of the two ranges. The evidence of the extant fabric suggests that the four-bay timber-framed range may be of early to mid-19th century date and may originally have been built as a livestock shelter shed (which was open fronted to the NW). This identification is further supported by the close proximity of the outbuilding to the farmhouse.
However, by the late 19th century the shelter shed appears to have been converted into accommodation for fattening cattle or pigs as indicated by the subdivision into four distinct pens and the infilling of the NW-facing elevation with featheredged boarding and broad planked doors. No visible evidence for a hayloft at roof level was noted. The brick rear wall and brick paved flooring noted in these compartments appears to be of mid-late 19th century date; the brickwork of the rear wall (consisting of yellowish-red bricks laid in English Garden Wall Bond) is characteristic of Victorian agricultural outbuildings and is noticeably different from that employed in the construction of the nearby late 18th century farmhouse.
The two-bay barn range to the SW appears to be of mid to late 19th century date and contemporary with the reconstruction of the rear wall of the four-bay timber-framed range. This range also appears to have been used as livestock accommodation but was converted to use as a garage in the mid to late 20th century and extensively refurbished as indicated by the modern double doors and concrete slab floor. |
| Author: |
S Priestley
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| Publisher: |
Border Archaeology
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| Year of Publication: |
2022
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Gloucestershire |
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Tewkesbury |
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Shurdington |
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England |
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Grid Reference: 392044, 220042 (Easting, Northing)
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19 Jul 2023 |
