Source/Archive record (Archive) SLI18025 - Outbuildings at Crown Farm, Stockwell Gate West, Whaplode

Title Outbuildings at Crown Farm, Stockwell Gate West, Whaplode
Author/Originator
Date/Year 2023

Abstract/Summary

Archive for a historic buildings survey conducted on outbuildings at Crown Farm, Stockwell Gate West, Whaplode, to inform their conversion to residential use. The study area comprised three ranges of buildings in C-shape plan form, around a crewyard open to the south. Historically associated with Whaplode House, a Grade II Listed farmhouse to the west (MLI94595), the complex is now part of Crown Farm. The outbuildings were all single storey brick constructions, under pitched gabled roofs. The North Range pre-dates the other ranges, and likely dates to the mid-19th century or earlier. Most of the doors and windows appeared to be contemporary with the construction of the East and West Ranges in the 1890s, and point to a change in use around this time. Internally, the North Range contained a large open cattle shed with a feeding passage, and a calf pen at the eastern end with timber feeding trough and hay rack. The East Range comprised another 4 bay cattle shed. A date stone on the south gable end was inscribed 'VR 18--', dating the range to 1887-1899, as it appears on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map of Whaplode. Formerly open to the crewyard, the west elevation was enclosed with horizontal shiplap above a concrete dwarf wall. Internally, it was sub-divided into three one-bay cattle loose boxes. The West Range comprised a small room of unknown use, with three pig sties to the south. As with the East Range, the sties were originally open to the crewyard, but the east elevation has since been bricked up.

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City and County Museum LCNCC: 2023.77

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  • Outbuildings, Crown Farm, Whaplode (Building)

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  • Outbuildings at Crown Farm, Whaplode

Record last edited

May 29 2024 4:12PM

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