Site Event/Activity record ESF20702 - Farm buildings at Red House Farm, Elmsett
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Location
Location | Farm buildings at Red House Farm |
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Grid reference | Centred TM 066 469 (45m by 42m) |
Map sheet | TM04NE |
Civil Parish | ELMSETT, BABERGH, SUFFOLK |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service
Date
Not recorded.
Description
Red House Farm lies in open countryside on the northern slope of a picturesque shallow valley of a tributary of Belstead Brook. The farm buildings form an enclosed yard approximately 25 metres north-east of a substantial, grade II listed, timber- farmhouse which is described as a 'medieval hall house'. At the time of the Elmsett tithe survey in 1842 the farm was a modest owner-occupied arable holding of 66 acres. The yard is flanked on the north by an impressive timber-framed and weatherboarded range with a steeply pitched slate roof of 30.7 m in length, and by a pair of open-sided pantiled shelter-sheds to the east and west. The shelter-sheds incorporate enclosed feed-stores and four additional storage sheds are housed in a narrow integral red-brick lean-to. The eastern section of the northern range forms a stable with a first-floor granary entered by an external door, while a five-bay barn with a gabled northern porch lies to the west. The resulting complex of eleven separate units represents a largely intact 'model' farm of circa 1860 which illustrates the sophisticated nature of the system of yard-based mixed animal husbandry now known as 'Victorian High Farming'. It replaced a scattered group of farm buildings shown in 1842, but incorporates a four-bay timber-framed barn of circa 1820 that reflects the cereal boom of the Napoleonic era. The complex is accordingly of considerable historic interest as it demonstrates the dramatic change between the two key periods of agricultural revolution in 19th century Suffolk.
Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes
Previous/Future Work: Previous No, Future No
Associated Identifiers:
Sitecode ETT 020
NMR No. 1529626
Project Type: Building Recording
Methods and Techniques: Photographic Survey
Reason for Investigation: Direction from Local Planning Authority - PPS
Site status: curtilage of a listed building
Current Land use: Other 2 - In use as a building
Monument Type(s)/Period(s): ARGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS Post Medieval
Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): NONE None
PROJECT LOCATION
Area 800.00 Square metres
Grid Reference: TM066469 Point
Height 51.00 - 52.00 metres
PROJECT CREATOR(S)
Brief originator: Local Planning Authority (with/without advice from County/District Archaeologist)
Design originator: Edward Martin
Director/Manager: David Gill
Supervisor: David Gill
DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Recipient: Suffolk County SMR
Contents: Survey
Media: Images raster / digital photography, Text
PAPER ARCHIVE
Recipient: Suffolk County SMR
Contents: Survey
Media: Report
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript)
Title: Farm buildings at Red House Farm, Elmsett
Author(s)/Editor(s): 'Alston, L.'
Date: 2010
Issuer/Publisher: SCCAS
Place of Issue or Publication: Shire Hall, Bury St Edmunds
Description: SCCAS client report, A4, soft bound colour
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SSF53580 Unpublished document: Alston, L.. 2010. Historic Building Record: Farm buildings at Red House Farm, Elmsett.
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
- ETT 020 The Farm Buildings, Red House Farm, Elmsett (Building)
Record last edited
Jan 10 2011 9:49AM