| Description | 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.
The dairy stands immediately to the east of the threshing barn, and does not appear on the 1932 OS map, supporting oral evidence that it was built by the farmer in 1930s. The dairy is rectangular in plan, measuring c.7m long by 3.5m wide. It is of a single storey, with a pitched roof of corrugated sheeting and built of machine made red brick. The west elevation has three windows, flanking a pair of doorways. The north doorway has a plank and batten door, while the south doorway is fitted with a stable type door. There are three windows to the east elevation; all appear to once have been of a similar size and form, but only the northernmost remains unaltered, the other two having been reduced to half their original height.
The interior is divided into a smaller north cell and a larger south cell. The northern cell is floored with concrete, while the walls are tiled with glazed tiles to 1.2m above the floor surface. There is a stone bench on glazed brick partitions against the north wall, and a stone sink on glazed brick supports to the north west corner. The larger southern cell is also floored with concrete and has walls tiled with glazed tiles to 1.3m above the floor surface. A pair of double stalls, with a raised concrete floor are laid out across the east side of the interior, separated by a tubular metal partition; they are each served by a concrete manger, and also have water bowls and siding tethering chains.
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. |