Havenhouse Barn is a component building of the Church Farm Museum, which was the subject of a Conservation Management Plan, written in 2008. The plan detailed the history of the buildings and the threats to their preservation. Church Farm was originally the centre of a small farmstead, founded in the early 18th century. The farmstead was gradually surrounded by new development during the second half of the 20th century, and much of the original rural character of the site was lost. The remainder of the farmstead was bought by East Lindsey District Council in 1973, when a decision was made to restore the surviving farm buildings and convert the site into a museum of Lincolnshire farm life. This museum opened in 1976, and the site has been used since 1981 to relocate various agricultural buildings from across Lincolnshire, giving the appearance of a far more complex agricultural site than it ever previously had. Havenhouse Barn was moved to the Church Farm Museum site from Havenhouse Farm, located to the east of Wainfleet. It originally formed part of a complex of buildings with the adjacent Cart Hovel (see PRN 49113), and was likely built at the same time. The current arrangement of the buildings is not the same as the original arrangement.Havenhouse Barn is a two-storey rectangular structure, built in red brick laid in an English Garden Wall bond, and features a shallow-pitched pantile roof. The plan form of the building suggests it was used as a particular kind of threshing barn, that utilised machinery to thresh the grain, which would then be stored on the upper floor. The two-storey form and architectural style of the barn would suggest a date of construction somewhere around 1850-1880. {1}