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The Barn, Homestead Farm, Low Common Road, Ashill, Norfolk |
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Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
Homestead Farm lies in open countryside to the east of Ashill village, within 75 metres of Ashill Common. The barn forms part of a clay-lump cattle yard that originally belonged to a smallholding of approximately 12 acres and served a herd of cattle grazing the common and the adjacent paddock. The farm is conspicuous by its absence from the tithe map of 1841, but remains largely unaltered from the layout shown on the Ordnance Survey of 1883; it was probably a new creation of the 1850s or 1860s, reflecting the economic boom in animal husbandry during that period. The buildings are of unusually small proportions, with the barn extending to just 8.5 metres in length and rising to 3 metres at its eaves (28 ft by 10 ft), and the adjoining neathouse (cowshed) and first-floor granary to just 4.75 metres in length by 2.75 metres in height (15.5 ft by 9 ft). A range of single-storied loose boxes forms the eastern side of an enclosed yard to the south of these buildings, but a western shelter shed has been demolished. The complex is a rare and historically interesting survival from the bottom end of the 19th century agricultural scale, illustrating that smallholdings possessed buildings as sophisticated in layout and function as the contemporary model farms of the Norfolk gentry. |
Author: |
L Alston
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Publisher: |
Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Norfolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2008
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The Barn, The Homestead, Low Common Road, Ashill |
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ASHILL |
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Breckland |
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Norfolk |
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England |
Grid Reference: 589060, 305110 (Easting, Northing)
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suffolkc1-53682 |
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A spiral bound A4 report with colour illustrations and photographs.
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24 Nov 2016 |