| Description | This farm building is located to the rear of the farm yard at Manor Farm and is currently predominately used as a grain store (Hough, 2008). There was an application being processed in July 2008 to list this and two other farm buildings at Manor Farm (see PRNs 8677 and 8678 also). The barn appears on the 1st edition OS map of 1849 along with the three storey barn to the north (PRN 8677).
Two of these three barns have now been Listed Grade II (April 2009), including the threshing barn described here. The following text has been edited from the English Heritage Adviser’s Report (20/11/2008):
The threshing barn, like that of the three storey barn to the north (PRN 8677), is stone built with stone slate roofs. It is probably 18th century in date. It has a large cart opening central to its north wall, with a much smaller winnowing door central to the south wall and a second standard sized door to the west. The latter two open out onto a former courtyard to the south of the building. The lintel to the cart opening is a carefully selected hewn timber forming an arch. The barn also has a window high in the east gable and two in the south wall in addition to a number of arrow slit ventilation openings. There is also a small blocked opening through the eastern end of the south wall. It is believed that this was for the drive shaft of a horse powered threshing machine. There is a single storey lean to outbuilding attached to the west gable end. Internally the barn has a 20th century grain silo in the east end and a modern replacement upper floor in the west end. The roof structure is probably an early 19th century replacement. It is a metal pinned, king strut roof with staggered, trenched purlins that are pegged.
In March 2010 Ed Dennison Archaeological Services Ltd (EDAS) undertook a programme of building recording at Manor Farm involving a survey of three farm outbuildings a threshing barn (PRN 8676), granary (PRN 8677) and dairy (PRN 8678) in advance of their conversion to residential accommodation. For further details, and to view the drawn and photographic surveys undertaken, please see the final report (EDAS, 2011), a copy of which is on file at West Yorkshire HER. |