NHER 52671 (Building record) - Field Barn north of East Beckham

February 2009. Building Survey.
Survey of agricultural building prior to its renovation.
A field barn and ancilliary building pre-dating the tithe map (1848). The building is a fairly typical example of a field barn set into the corner of a field some distance from the farmstead. The purpose of these buildings was to remove the need to transport the produce from the fields the large distance back to the farm. Carts full of straw would have entered the barn via the northern porch for threshing on the central floor using flails. The cartographic evidence suggests that a courtyard once existed to the south of the threshing barn as suggested by the remains of walls enclosing to the west, east and south. A second building former part of this courtyard and was probably an ancilliary building associated with the storage of equipment or cattle. A date of 1815 is inscribed in the paster of the ancilliary building but it is not known whether this is genuine.
See report (S1) for further details.
See also (S2).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2016.154).
S. Howard (NLA), 11 November 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 June 2019.