NHER 40193 (Building record) - Granary at Downham Lodge Farm

September 2003. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Granary and cart shed. Early 19th century. Red brick with weatherboarded upper part to front and dark glazed pantile roof. Three-bay cart shed with granary over. Open front supported on timber posts with enclosed stair shaft approached from rear where there is a central cart entrance in the brick wall. Door and window on left end with two-light window over. Two-light window on right end gable…
This is a very good example of a purpose-built granary with the unusual separate brick-built stair shaft, the surviving finely crafted bin divisions and the very rare existence of a rear cart entrance, no doubt to facilitate loading and unloading via the trap door. The granary forms a good farmstead group with Downham Lodge Farmhouse [NHER 45662] and barn to west [NHER 45537]."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details, including the full description of interior features.
P. Watkins (HES), 19 March 2022.

February 2004. Field Observation.
At south end of farmyard. Cart shed with granary above.
Rear wall and side walls of red brick with horizontal skintlings; stairs enclosed behind brick partition to left. Left hand wall with door and slatted window to room under stairs; both gables with slatted granary windows. Front wall open on posts at base, first floor level covered but base of studwork and a brace with brick infill visible. Ground floor ceiling joists on edge, two beams, one of which has apotropaic symbols of a type in use since the 17th century, and also a figure resembling 66 or 99. Granary has low grain bins of wood; roof of four bays with two orders tapered in line purlins, collars, ridge board, all pegged together; long raking end windbraces. Wallplate above front wall alone. 19th-century date with late survival of good timber framing.
Plans and drawings (S2) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 28 February 2004.