Possible early 19th century former cartshed and granary at Sykes Farm. The farmstead is believed to have been constructed in about 1820, with tenants known to have occupied the farm from 1825. A photograph taken of this building in 1962 shows it to have been a two-storey, brick-built structure, although it was largely ruinous at this time. The building had four large cart bays to the ground floor, open on the western side, with what was likely to have been a granary space to the upper floor. The farmstead was purchased in 1978 by what was then the Lincolnshire Naturalists Trust (now Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust), as part of the expansion and development of the Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve. Most of the surviving farm buildings were found to be unsafe and were demolished in 1982. The former cartshed was found to be in more sound condition, however, with the remains being consolidated and adapted in 2000, to be used as office and storage space, and as a reserve warden's house. {1}