NHER 33843 (Building record) - Great Barn Farm

June 1988. Listed, Grade II.
Great Barn Farm Barn. Listed building description.
Two 18th century barns under one continuous roof. Brick, pantiles, nine steads. Older work is six steads in English bond; later build also English bond, three stead. Three large doors to east. Right hand gable (south) includes dressed limestone. Various outshuts. Interior of older work has three tier butt purlin roof with braces to upper tier; massive ties with struts to purlin. Later barn with 19th century kingpost roof. Dividing wall of brick.
Information from (S1).
E. Rose (NLA) 25 September 1998.

October 2009. Planning application.
Conversion of farm building to 3 residential dwellings with cartshed garages and 4 holiday dwellings.
See (S2) for further details
Z. Dack (HES), 27 June 2012.

September-October 2010. Building Survey.
The survey revealed that the grade II listed barn had functioned as a threshing barn and comprised two main phases of construction dating to the 18th and 19th century. The other buildings within the complex were dated to the early and late 19th century and were likely to have be used to shelter cattle and horses. The earliest map depicting the complex is Bryant's map of Norfolk (1826), drawn from surveys carried out between 1824 and 1826, which shows the threshing barn and a number of other farm buildings (S1). The function of many buildings was unclear due to the removal of fixtures and fittings but it would appear that the earlier buildings housed horses, carts, and crop processing equipment associated with wheat and corn arable farming. Cattle were later introduced and accommodated as the farm expanded.
See report (S3) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S4).
S. Howard (HES), 24 February 2011.