20th century barn and shed, The Pear Barn, Great Lodge Farm (EHER 80286)

The Pear Barn and Implement shed are 20th century structures built adjoining to the earlier Rose Barn at the Great Lodge Farmhouse. These buildings date from the first half of the 20th century and may have been constructed during the Second World War.

2009. Building survey. The Implement Shelter is a 20th century building with concrete blockwork walls and a single pitch machined timber roof clad in corrugated asbestos and tin sheeting. The support posts are housed in concrete bollards and secured with bolts passed through steel eyelets set in the concrete. The building is 14.35m long and 5.8m wide. The roof joists are treated machined timber, 60x170mm and the purlins 50x100mm in section. The floor is poured concrete. The Pear Barn is a workshop building constructed from concrete blockwork and a trussed steel frame with corrugated iron skin. It was manufactured by Boulton & Paul of Norwich and is a prefabricated building. Boulton & Paul are more famous for building aircraft. They were also a wire netting manufacturer, and became famous for the construction of prefabricated wooden buildings. This type of building dates to the 1930s and 1940s and it may have been erected for the war effort. <1>