20th century barn, The Apple Barn, Great Lodge Farm (EHER 80288)

The farmyard comprises seven buildings arranged in two parallel east-west ranges, surveyed in a historic building report in 2009. The Apple Barn is built adjoining the Cattle Shed and Open Shelter and its original structure is probably contemporary with these (mid 19th century) however the Apple Barn was demolished at some time and the current structure is 20th century.

2009. Building survey. The Apple Barn is a 20th century cement blockwork building that has been erected between the red brick walls of the Cattle Shed and the Open Shelter. The building engulfs the end of the Cattle Shed which gives it a ground plan 13.1m long by 6.7m wide internally. It stands on an elevated concrete platform and is believed to have been a dairy, loading the churns out the door into vans. The eastern wall has been repaired with later red bricks, bonded in sandy beige mortar. The western wall has been built up off an earlier wall which still retains its coping bricks and probably joined to the Anne of Cleves Barn which has a repair scar on its north-west corner. The north and south walls are built of cement blocks, set in grey cement. These are of the same type as in the Implement Shed, the Pear Barn and are also used to support the redundant grain floors inside the Anne of Cleves Barn and are all 20th century. The building is currently used as store but it still retains an inserted ceiling and partitions for when it was used for rearing pheasants some twenty years ago. <1>