Nineteenth century barn at Jordan's Farm, Nathans Lane (EHER 80857)

The ruins of a 19th century five-bay brick-built barn, comprising central thrashing floor and North and South bay. The ruins consist of a brick plinth up to 7ft tall, and a blockwork offshoot to the West may have once been used as a piggery. In the 1980s the barn was used as a car garage and the building was destroyed by accidental fire.

March 2013. Heritage assessment. The ruins of a five-bay brick-built barn. The fifth bay has no physical connection to the rest of the brickwork because of the positioning of two doorways. The other four bays are all correctly closed, and the barn is therefore divided into the Southernmost bay, a thrashing floor of three bays and a separate Northernmost bay. The central bay has a projecting plinth for a small porch. In the 1980s the barn was used as a car garage and the building was destroyed by accidental fire. The ruins consist of a brick plinth up to 7ft tall built of frogged red bricks set in a beige and white sandy mortar creased. The Northern elevation presents the open side of the 5th bay. It is from here that it can be seen the Barn was built to step down the shallow incline of the valley. The Southern elevation is a blank brick wall with a blockwork offshoot to the Western side. The blockwork and a 4ft tall section of wall have been cement rendered suggesting that there was a store or piggery once placed there. The central three bays form the thrashing barn which retains its asphalt floor. In the centre is a concrete pad and this may have been an inspection pit or, more likely, a machine base. There is no indication in the asphalt that there were internal silos so it is likely the 20th century grain drying machinery was in the barn and fed the large silo to the East. The barn was probably built at sometime between 1843 and 1874. <1>