Alston, L. (2010). The Barn, Mount Pleasant Farm, Rendham, RNM 019 Histroric Building Record. Ipswich: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. https://doi.org/10.5284/1010000. Cite this using datacite

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The Barn, Mount Pleasant Farm, Rendham, RNM 019 Histroric Building Record
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Mount Pleasant Farm lies on the crest of a hill in open countryside approximately 1 km north-east of Rendham village. The barn is a timber-framed and weatherboarded threshing barn of three bays with a central entrance in its southern elevation and a contemporary lean-to porch to the north. It preserves an intact roof of staggered butt-purlins which contains tie-beams to the central bay but pairs of A-framed trusses to the two long outer bays; an unusual method of increasing headroom. Both the tie-beams and A-frames incorporate bolted knee-braces rather than tenoned arch-braces and indicate a date of circa 1820-30. The building survives largely intact and represents a good 'Napoleonic barn' illustrating Suffolk's agricultural boom in the wake of wartime import restrictions: It is accordingly of both historic and structural interest. A threshing floor of stone flags is probably an original feature, and the external weatherboarding preserves good evidence of its original grey pigment where protected within a number of later additions. Despite these points of interest, however, the building has lost its thatch and much of its cladding and probably fails to meet the strict English Heritage criteria for listing - although the case is marginal. The piecemeal addition of numerous animal sheds and shelters in the late-19th century is also typical of the region, which compensated for lower grain prices after the Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 by introducing mixed animal husbandry. The resulting complex is unusually complete, having altered little in outline since 1904.
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L Alston
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Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Suffolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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2010
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Site: RNM 019 Barn at Mount Pleasant Farm, Rendham
Parish: RENDHAM
District: Suffolk Coastal
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Grid Reference: 635850, 264870 (Easting, Northing)
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UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) NONE (Find)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) BUILDING (Monument Type England)
BUILDING SURVEY (Event)
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OASIS Id: suffolkc1-77526
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Comb bound, A4, colour, white cover (also available as PDF)
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24 Nov 2016