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Steer Bank Farm, Harworth, Nottinghamshire, Historic Building Record (Level 3) |
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Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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| Abstract: |
The record comprises a report with plans and elevations of the farm buildings, in accordance with guidance provided by Understanding Historic Buildings: A Guide to Good Recording Practice (HE 2016). The Recording will comprise an analytical record (Level 3), in accordance with Historic England Building Recording standards. The record provides a comprehensive visual record of the farm, setting it within its local, regional and historical context. Appropriate labelling and annotation has been utilised to identify building and room references, to aid the interpretation of the analysis. In June 2023 Cotswold Archaeology was commissioned by Mulberry Logistics Park Doncaster Ltd to undertake a programme of Historic Building Recording in respect of Steer Bank Farm, Harworth, Nottinghamshire. Steer Bank Farm comprises a small, regular courtyard plan farmstead that has historical associations with the nearby Serlby Hall estate and was historically owned by the Viscount(s) of Galway. The farm originated as a single field barn, situated close to a nearby track, that developed over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries through the addition of further buildings and apparent divergence into small-scale pastoral farming. Despite the variation in architecture and function, the buildings incorporate a common palette of red brick and clay pantiles that typifies the character of farms across Nottinghamshire. The surviving buildings within the farm evidence much alteration and their condition is varied. The historical farming functions have ceased and the buildings have been converted to primarily domestic and residential use, with some limited stabling for recreational horse riding. As a consequence, the survival of fixtures and fittings is extremely limited and the principal significance of the farm buildings lies in their structural fabric and identifiable form and historical functions only. In this sense, Building A (the late 18th/early 19th-century threshing barn) incorporates the greatest significance, due to its age, scale and identifiable original purpose. The building retains many elements that evidence its threshing barn function such as surviving threshing doors and plank, infilled ventilator slits, owl hole, and single internal space. The building has however, been much compromised through the infilling of a threshing doorway and apertures, and the introduction of a modern residential ‘cell’ and domestic style windows. The remaining farm buildings are later in construction, spanning the mid 19th century to late 20th century, and evidence much alteration, conversion and rebuilding. The legibility of the farm’s function and operation has diminished over time and the evident changes to the building fabric has contributed to their overall limited significance. |
| Author: |
Richard Hardy
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| Publisher: |
Cotswold Archaeology
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| Other Person/Org: |
Nottinghamshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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| Year of Publication: |
2023
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England |
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Styrrup with Oldcotes |
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Bassetlaw |
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Nottinghamshire |
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Grid Reference: 462664, 390094 (Easting, Northing)
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cotswold2-518424 |
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MK0926_1 |
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| Created Date: |
19 Oct 2023 |
