Mid 19th century cart lodge and stables at Sporhams Farm, Sporhams Lane (EHER 80852)

A timber framed cart lodge to the South of Sporhams Farmhouse, which has been extended to the West with an open-fronted bay. Originally built as a stable with tack room and stable doors, these have been blocked off now except for the upper half of the Eastern-end door.

June 2022. Heritage assessment. The Southern range or outbuilding at Sporhams Farm, although its appearance is of some antiquity, would have been built later than the house, sometime between the 1840s and 1880s and probably replaced smaller less useful buildings serving the same purpose. It was probably built as a stables or cart lodge and is first shown on the OS map as an L-shaped building and before that, three small buildings stood approximately where the Southern range now stands. This building has been extended to the West with an open-fronted bay. It is timber framed throughout under a pantiled roof. Originally built as a stable with tack room and stable doors, these have been blocked off now except for the upper half of the Eastern-end door. Its use as a stable probably diminished during the advent of motorised transport and became storage sheds. <1>