rikj
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I only put this here to cry shame on the local council for allowing this place to lie derelict. A manorial barn built to store grain in the 1400s, it remained in agricultural use until the 1960s. In the 1980s it was restored, the vast wooden interior roof structure is hugely impressive, and won an architechtural award in 1991.
Since then it lain empty and allowed to deteriorate. The farm buildings have had the stone roofs stolen.
Incongruously it lies isolated between a railway, a major road and a large shopping centre. As you might expect for something so old it has stories of ghosts.
When I visited I found two local farmers excercising a horse. They rent the surrounding land. I spoke at length to them and they would love to buy it and return it to its original function, a farm. However, the council seem set on selling it to developers, and wouldn't entertain a return to agricultural use.
The barn has a four hourly swipe card security visit. This is the barn:
And these are the farm buildings:
Since then it lain empty and allowed to deteriorate. The farm buildings have had the stone roofs stolen.
Incongruously it lies isolated between a railway, a major road and a large shopping centre. As you might expect for something so old it has stories of ghosts.
When I visited I found two local farmers excercising a horse. They rent the surrounding land. I spoke at length to them and they would love to buy it and return it to its original function, a farm. However, the council seem set on selling it to developers, and wouldn't entertain a return to agricultural use.
The barn has a four hourly swipe card security visit. This is the barn:
And these are the farm buildings: