Cart sheds and stables on Home Farm, Somerby. The building underwent a programme of historic building recording in May 2017 prior to its restoration, extension, and conversion into a residential dwelling. The structure is a single-storey, brick building with a timber-framed, mono-pitched roof covered with pantiles. Orange-red and buff coloured bricks were used throughout the building. The eastern and western sections of the building are open-sided cart sheds and stables, and the central section is enclosed with 3 internal rooms and a passageway through the building. On the southern elevation, the cart sheds are open, with the roof supported by circular timbers. The central section is built in brick in Scottish bond, laid following the slope (rather than being stepped). There are 4 doorways with timber doors in this elevation. The western elevation is brick in a slight variation of English Garden Wall bond. The eastern elevation use to be an internal brick wall, which has been painted white. The landowner stated that the building was cut through in the late 20th century to create access. The northern elevation is a substantial wall built out of orange-red brick in stretcher bond which are also laid to follow the slope. The wall is 0.5m thick, with a rubble core, and stands to a height of approximately 3m. The height of the wall has been increased, at the same time that the sheds were built on the southern side. There is one door opening, and two window openings, one of which has been bricked up, in this elevation. Internally, the eastern and western cart sheds and stables are almost identical. They have white painted brick walls, with a brick feeding trough with a wooden manger along the northern wall. At the eastern end of the trough, there is a stone water trough. In the central section, two of the rooms appear to have just been used as storage, while the third has a feeding trough along the northern wall, with a lead cistern with a ball cock and a stone trough that has been filled with cement on the western end of the feeding trough. None of the internal walls are bonded to the northern wall, which supports the northern wall predating the cart sheds. Due to the different construction, and its substantial height and width, the northern wall was likely a garden or boundary wall, likely built some time during the 19th century. It was then reused when the cart sheds were built between 1887-1907, based on map evidence. {1}{2}{3}{4}