Davis, B. (2015). Drax Barn and Drax Cottage, Orcheston, Wiltshire: Historic Building Record. Wessex Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1112311. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Drax Barn and Drax Cottage, Orcheston, Wiltshire: Historic Building Record
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Series:		 Wessex Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 The project was a historic building record of the Grade II listed Drax Barn and adjoining Drax Cottage, in Orcheston, Wiltshire prior to redevelopment as a condition of listed building consent.The Historic Building Record was commensurate with English Heritage Level 2 (descriptive) recording guidelines and involved photographic survey and a historic map regression. The buildings comprise a large timber framed barn to the west and an adjoining two-storey brick building to the east, which consists of a former pigsty with first floor dwelling above. The timber framed barn is five bays in length and set on a flint and brick plinth wall. The barn is aisled to the east and west and has a central threshing floor with tall midstrey entrance on the west side. The whole barn has been the subject of recent contemporary conversion into a dwelling. Stylistically, the historic frame would appear to date to the 18th century. Drax Cottage abuts the south-eastern corner of the barn. It is two-storey with ground floor retaining some former 19th century pigsties. Part of the ground floor has been converted into a workshop and most of the pigsty openings blocked up and front pig-pens demolished in the mid-late 20th century. The first floor was converted into a dwelling in what may originally have been a feed store loft. The two buildings were originally part of a larger yard which included a farmhouse and extensive outbuildings which went out of use in the mid - late 20th century.
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Author:		 Bob Davis
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Publisher:		 Wessex Archaeology
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Year of Publication:		 2015
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County: Wiltshire
Parish: Orcheston
District: Wiltshire
Country: England
Grid Reference: 405899, 145199 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL AISLED BARN (Tag)
BUILDING SURVEY (Event)
20TH CENTURY DWELLING (Tag)
POST MEDIEVAL PIGSTY (Tag)
PIGSTY (Monument Type England)
BEAM (Object England)
DWELLING (Monument Type England)
AISLED BARN (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL BEAM (Tag)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
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OASIS Id: wessexar1-223505
OBIB: 109490.01
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Created Date:		 15 Aug 2023