NHER 38117 (Building record) - Grove Farm, Lundy Green

House and barn.
NB not to be confused with another Grove Farm in this parish.
Barn stated to be 19th century, house to 'look as if it had an old core' by [1] in 2002.
Barn visited by [2] and [3] in August 1980 to see an inscription on a beam which the owner at the time thought was Runic. Possible translation in file by [2], [3] said not Runic. This was later identified by [4] as an example of what is known as pseudo runic, a type of atropaic inscription used in post medieval times to protect horses from nightmares. Rubbing in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 27 February 2003.

The barn has a brick cart porch with serif-I slits and the date 1849 in clamp irons, but the owner states it is shown on the tithe map of 1840. There are cart doors opposite the porch. The main body is timber framed of three steads, the end steads having central ties attached to non jowled posts by bolted knee braces; another pair frame the midstrey; mortices for arched braces in the ties alone show the latter are reused. The walls have machine cut studs and V bracing and there is a brick plinth. There are two inscriptions as noted above, one on the wallpost of the south stead north of its central post (above a loft) and on the silbeam of the north wall west of centre. The date of the barn is certainly 19th century. There are later attachments, one of clay lump.
The house is constructed of bricks with horizontal skintlings (post c.1770) and is now a very odd profile, having a pyramid roof with an axial stack each side of the apex, one of which is stated to have an inglenook fireplace.
The owner believes the whole complex dates from the Enclosure Act of 1818.
(S1) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 7 October 2003.

(S2) in fact shows a barn of the same shape but on a different alignment. This could be simply a cartographic error yet the buildings around are shown on the same alignment as at present. Could the barn have been moved or reconstructed? (as did happen with timber framed buildings).
E. Rose (NLA), 12 December 2005.