Part of the complex of farm buildings at Cornhills Farm was included in a programme of building survey, conducted in December 2003, prior to the proposed conversion and redevelopment of many of the farm buildings to domestic dwellings. The complex comprises a series of mid 19th century farm buildings centred around a likely 18th century threshing barn, arranged in an E-shaped plan. The main threshing barn is a two-storey, brick-built struture, and likely dates to the late 18th century, when the nearby farmhouse was also built (see PRN 54982). The barn is aligned east to west with large double doors in both the north and south elevations. In between the doors was a threshing floor of packed earth, with storage areas to east and west for unthreshed crop on the ground floor, and lofts to store the finished material above. The upper storey had ventilation holes in the brickwork, arranged in an ornamental diamond shaped pattern. A blocked pitching door was also located in the northern wall, which would have given access to the upper storey at this side. Considerable alterations were made to the barn in the 19th century, when a steam-powered engine was installed, and the function of this barn significantly changed. The storage of large quantities of unthreshed grain was no longer required, and the lower bays were converted to house machinery for the steam engine instead. Considerable expansion of the farm buildings occurred at approximately the same time as the adoption of steam-power in the mid 19th century, with the construction of a large number of cattle sheds arranged around central crew yards, and with wagon sheds, tack rooms and a granary building also being added. All of the additions were built of brick, and, where still surviving, featured roofs of clay pantiles. The surveyed buildings comprise a small, single-storey shed to the immediate west of the threshing barn, which links the east to west aligned range to a north to south aligned range. This western range is comprised of (from north to south) single-storey open sided wagon sheds, a two-storey probable tack room or equipment store, a stable with granary to the upper floor, and a possible workroom at the southern end of the ground floor. The complex of farm buildings also includes a central and eastern range of probable former cow sheds, though these parts were not included in the programme of building survey. {1} Further historical building recording was conducted of the complex of farm buildings in December 2014. This survey investigated the eastern range and part of the central range of mid 19th century, single-storey cattle sheds. The buildings are all built of red brick, mostly laid in an English Garden Wall bond, and feature pantile roofs. The buildings demonstrate a high quality of design and demonstrate a clear understanding of the science of the 'High Farming' movement. The central range appears to belong to a slightly later phase of expansion of the farm buildings, utilising the original crew yard dividing wall as a spine wall. All of the buildings feature openings in their elevations that face the crew yard, though almost all of these have been infilled by a variety of timber or brick walls, representing several later phases of alterations to the farm structures. An exterior steel beam was recorded in the north-eastern corner of the crew yard; this is likely to have provided structural support for a no longer extant covering to the yard. {2}{3}