Description

HALBERTON
SS 90 NE
4/171 Farmbuilding complex 75 metres
- west of Oburneford Farmhouse
GV II

A purpose built block comprising barn, linhays, milling and threshing machine room,
sheltered yard and underground water-wheel. 1821. The words "Rob Pitt had this
barn built in 1821 by William Brown the mason and William Thomas carpenter" are
painted on a bressumer above the sheltered yard. Cob, stone plinth, plastered,
under gabled-end slate roof. The block which is roughly L-shaped lies on sloping
ground with easy vehicular access to the rear (which contains the machine room
powered by a water-wheel still surviving underground and fed by a leet), but of 2-
storeys at the front where the 5-bay hay loft and barn is set over the sheltered
section of the livestock yard (i.e. following the principal of a bank barn); the
milling gear is largely intact; 1 drive-shaft powers a root masher which is placed
in the tallet above the adjoining linhay, which encloses a separate yard. Machines
for threshing and reed combing were also housed in this complex. The main barn
(which might be a little earlier than the other parts of the building) has a large
pentice roof over lay loft double doors above sheltered yard, overhanging eaves and
fascia, and a prominent weathervane.

Listing NGR: SS9886109321

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462157

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)