Alston, L. (2008). Abbey Farm Barn, Eye, Suffolk. Ipswich: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. https://doi.org/10.5284/1017768. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Abbey Farm Barn, Eye, Suffolk
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Series:		 Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service unpublished report series
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https://doi.org/10.5284/1017768
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Abstract:		 Abbey Farm Barn, a Tudor brick building, was part of Eye Priory. It has been interpreted as a chapel, guest-house, noble residence, stable-block or malting-house. Leigh Alston reinterprets the building as a rare monastic brew- and bake-house: the 'Bakhous and Brewe hous' mentioned in 1536. The building is 10.2m/33.5ft wide and a truncated 23.3m/76.5ft long. Details of brickwork, carpentry and windows in the eastern elevation indicate a late-15th/early-16th-century date. However, the prominent western elevation has decorative arched fenestration in a 13th-century style, perhaps intended to reflect the Priory buildings. The interior originally had a low granary or malting loft along most of its length, with an area of 8.5m/28ft by 6.4m/21ft against the southern gable open to the roof, overlooked by projecting galleries. Its walls incorporate niches, drains and recesses, including two unusual fire-backs. An inventory of 1536 lists 'great vats': archaeological evidence of furnaces and ovens may survive. Large, detached dual purpose service buildings were standard on high-status medieval sites but most monastic examples were destroyed after the Dissolution. Three other known examples stand at Lindisfarne, Norwich and Canterbury. Abbey Farm Barn, despite an 18th-century conversion into stabling and a fire in 1900, represents the best-preserved of the four known English survivors. As a building of historic importance, a recommendation is made for grade II* or I listing. There is potential for further study: dendrochronological or luminescence dating may refine the chronology and the building offers a unique opportunity to understand the mechanics of medieval brewing and baking.
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Author:		 L Alston
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Publisher:		 Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Suffolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2008
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Site: Abbey farm, Eye
Parish: EYE
District: Mid Suffolk
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Location - Auto Detected: Lindisfarne Norwich
Location - Auto Detected: Canterbury Abbey Farm Barn
Location - Auto Detected: Abbey Farm Barn Eye Suffolk Abbey Farm Barn
Grid Reference: 615250, 274060 (Easting, Northing)
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UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) NONE (Find)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) BAKEHOUSE (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) BREWHOUSE (Monument Type England)
Medieval (Auto Detected Temporal)
BUILDING SURVEY (Event)
1900 (Auto Detected Temporal)
1536 (Auto Detected Temporal)
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OASIS Id: suffolkc1-52735
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Note:		 A standard building survey report by Leigh Alston, A4 spiral bound with colour illustrations and photographs.
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Created Date:		 25 Nov 2016