Outbuilding approximately 40 metres east of Bower Hall (EHER 27871)

The barn is listed as an 18th century structure but in fact dates from the mid 19th century and almost certainly replaced the barn shown on the same site in 1838.

October 2021. Level 3 building survey. The barn is listed as an 18th century structure but in fact dates from the mid 19th century and almost certainly replaced the barn shown on the same site in 1838. It The building resembles a traditional three-bay threshing barn with opposing doors in its central bay, but the original framing indicates both are later insertions. Although the 1838 tithe map shows a substantial barn on the same site it is unlikely the present structure belonged to it. The uniformly narrow-sectioned studs interrupted by nailed rather than pegged braces are typical of the middle decades of the 19th century. The lack of principal rafters in the roof also points to a later date, as does the ridge-board at its apex. Frames of this kind are not usually seen in buildings depicted on the tithe maps of the 1830s and 40s, but were common by the time of the First Edition 25 inch Ordnance Surveys in the 1870s and 80s. Many farm buildings were rebuilt during this hectic period in local agriculture as the yard-based system of mixed animal husbandry known today as Victorian High Farming replaced the more traditional scattered farmsteads of previous centuries. The remaining structure certainly cannot have been built in the 18th century as stated in the listing entry. <1>