Upper Holling Farm, Hollins Lane, Martley, Worcestershire. Historic Building Recording (OASIS ID: 110archa1-379197)
Jill Atherton, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5284/1083533. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
One ten archaeology undertook a programme of historic building recording (level 3) at Upper Holling Farm in advance of the conversion of part of the existing range of cow-house, originally a stable and loose-box, to form a dwelling. The north-east range last functioned as a cow-house, having been reordered in the early twentieth century to include, in addition to the original cow-house, the former loose-box and stable. In the haylofts, there are individual 'throwing' doors and a standard doorway in the north-west gable and the transverse walls. There are grids of vents in the other gable and over the fold-yard side of the loose-box. On the ground-floor new openings were formed, with lintels, in the transverse walls, passages along the front and rear walls and individual stalls. The rear passage retained the original extant, feeding-passage partition in the old cow-house.
Little of the original furniture survived early twentieth century work but there is enough to indicate original functions. In addition to the original cow-house partition there is a short surviving length of beam above which suggests the position of the manger front. In the former loose-box the socketed beam for the hayrack survives with short additional timbers supporting the new upper next to the wall, the door to the foldyard was blocked and fenestrated. In the stable a tack-hook survives in situ out of an original group of four. The positions of original doorways indicate a walkway along the south-west. The lintel over the foldyard door is a reused wall-plate with birds' mouths and its scantling suggests a 17th century date. The timberwork throughout is well made and all the principal-joists have chamfers with scroll-stops, not out of place in a 17th century domestic context but these are not reused timbers. A ridge-board sits above the traditionally constructed interrupted tie-beam frames which are shorter over the original cow-house, due to the stepping of floor levels.
