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Listed building outline: Greatham Manor Farm Granary Store, a late C18 or early C19 barn, later converted to a granary store and cart horse stable LB/0022

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Greatham Manor Farm Granary Store, a late C18 or early C19 barn, later converted to a granary store and cart horse stable LB/0022

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-0.517155 50.934098,-0.517062 50.934078,-0.516928...
• entry-date: 2012-09-19
• name: Greatham Manor Farm Granary Store, a late C18 or early C19 barn, later converted to a granary store and cart horse stable
• reference: LB/0022
• start-date: 2012-09-17
• description: This structure appears to date from the late C18 and is probably the building shown on an 1827 estate map and the 1837 tithe map. Most pre-1840 buildings are listed where they survive in substantially intact form. Architecturally it is an unusual agricultural building because it has a front wall of yellow brick although the remainder of the barn is timber framed. It is a large farm building of nine bays. This is an unusually large size for a purpose-built granary and it is likely that the building started life as a barn because there are large openings for carts in the 3rd and 7th bays of both sides. By 1875 it was known to be in use as a granary store with the northern three bays adapted as a stable for cart horses. The grain store floorboards and floor joists in the southern six bays are of machine-sawn softwood which are not C18 or early C19 in date and thus not original, and the northern three bays do not have a raised floor which are further reasons for supposing the building was originally a barn rather than a granary. The late C18 timber frame survives substantially intact with the addition of some later secondary timbers including poles for structural reasons. It forms part of a group with some C19 farm buildings and three listed buildings comprising Greatham Manor, which originally owned the farm, a cottage and the parish church. Therefore for its early date, architectural interest and group value the granary store meets the test of special interest.