Description

SX 39 SW ST GILES ON THE HEATH

4/37 Farm Buildings forming the
- farmyard to the north of
Pinslow Farmhouse
GV II

Planned farmyard. 1863 (datestone) for the Bedford Estate. Stone rubble with brick
dressings and gabled slate roofs.
The farmyard is on 3 levels, exploiting the gradient of the site. To the west a hay
barn with large double timber doors is at right angles to the west range which is a
2-storey building with a threshing loft, formerly powered by a water turbine. A 2-
span fattening shed adjoins the threshing loft at right angles and projects into the
central yard forming the north side of the farmyard. Dung was carried across the
yard to the 2-storey east range and dropped down into the ground floor of the
dunghouse from timber platforms projecting over the pits. The south end of the east
range was formerly a carpenters' and blacksmiths' shop. The south range consists of
open-front cartsheds.
The farmyard is very little altered since 1863 and has all the characteristic
features of the Bedford Estate farm buildings of the high farming period, including
timber-lined roofs and ingeniously-designed adjustable ventilation slats.

Listing NGR: SX3487290118

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26596299

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]