Mid to late 19th century animal shelter, Bradwell Hall (EHER 81583)

A twelve-bay timber framed open fronted cattle shelter on a brick plinth. It was probably built in the mid to late 19th century and has later brick in-filling.

June 1999. Heritage assessment. A twelve-bay timber framed open fronted cattle shelter on a brick plinth. There is evidence for possible cross divisions inserted to make a milking parlour. Some lengths of feed rack are present, loose on the floor, but they may not be from this building. The roof is pantiled over with reed insulation between the rafters. Later alterations involved filling in the East wall in brick with access doors in bays 2 and 7 and windows in the other bays. The floor is concrete with a central drainage channel. The South end now has a door access on the East side and the rest of this end bay partitioned to form a calf unit. The North end now has no infill wall. Everything in the original building suggests a date from the middle to the end of the 19th century as the period of building. The building abuts a modern 1950s/1960s farm building to the East. <1>