Late 19th century threshing barn and cow house at Rands Farm, Burton End (EHER 49594)

The late 19th century farm buildings were documented in 2021. The barn is a very late example of a threshing barn.

July 2021. Level 3 building survey. The timber-framed and weatherboarded farm buildings adjoin the remains of the possible moat to the west of the house and consist of a four-bay barn with a southern entrance porch facing the road flanked by two stables. The former is an unusually late example of a traditional threshing barn that was shown on the Ordnance Survey of 1896 but not that of 1876. It consists chiefly of re-used timber salvaged from a variety of earlier structures which explains its archaic appearance. The larger of the two stables may represent the building of similar scale shown on approximately the same site in 1876, but if so was newly built at the time. It was almost certainly designed as a cow shed but was re-roofed and altered beyond recognition in the late 20th century when it was converted into a stable. The smaller of the two is a mid 20th century structure consisting in part of re-used railway sleepers that has also been much altered. Given their relatively late date and the extent of their alterations the buildings are not of special significance. <1>