19th century cart shed at Wolseys Farm, Duton Hill (EHER 81110)

A late 19th century cart shed located within yard A near a listed barn.

October 2008. Level 3 building survey. The linear brick and timbered building began life in the late 19th century as an open-sided cart shed built onto shelter shed 3/Yard B, facing a pre-existing cart or shelter shed to the east. Both are shown on the 1897 map. With the removal of the second shed in the last century, a concrete yard was laid up to the flint retaining wall to the east. A small modern enclosed shed was built at the southern end of the yard but was not recorded as part of the survey. As part of the 20th century conversion of the shelter shed to a milking parlour, the east wall was filled-in and new floor laid. Now standing as a redundant building, its most recent use is to store furniture. The shed is well-built in Flemish bond and feather-edged boarding under a 45º pitched gabled roof. The roof is tiled to the west but clad in corrugated asbestos the other side, not visible from the yard. <1>