We have shown this farm
before and I'm sure it will feature again, today picture is from our regular
contributor Aiden Prince.
This farm originally
15th century, but with external walls and other features of the 17th to 19th
century. It Cruck-Framed with brick and
squared rubble walls and a graduated stone slate roof.
A cruck or crook frame
is a curved timber, one of a pair, which supports the roof of a building, used
particularly in England. This type of timber-framing consists of long,
generally bent, timber beams that lean inwards and form the ridge of the roof.
These posts are then generally secured by a horizontal beam which then forms an
"A" shape. Several of these "crooks" are constructed on the
ground and then lifted into position. They are then joined together by either
solid walls or cross beams which aid in preventing racking (the action of each
individual frame going out of square with the rest of the frame, and thus
risking collapse).
Thanks for the picture Aiden
3 comments:
Fond memories of this very creepy building. My friend Rosemary Garlick lived in the pair of semis almost opposite in the 60s and we would go horse-riding together every Saturday. I never liked walking home in the dark on Apethorn. Is the farm still there?
It's still there, but is now wrapped up in plastic sheeting to stop it getting any worse. It will need someone with a big wallet to put it in order. Would be very nice to see it though. I was always told that my paternal grandparents rented part of this building at one time.
That's interesting, Tom, because another school friend of mine, Christine Ogden from Newton, used to spend holidays with her Uncle John and Auntie Susie who lived at the farm.
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