sps1955's photos with the keyword: Barn

From NE. Late C15 or early C16; restored and converted 1974. According to the RCHM, the high standard of carpentry suggests that the lower compartment only was used for storage and that the main rooms on the first floor were set aside for other use such as a guild hall or 'town house'; evidence survives for a first-floor entrance on the E. presumably by way of an external staircase and porch. There was formerly a lode alongside leading from the nearby River Cam, whose importance prior to the building of the railways is suggested by a complaint from nearby Fulbourn in 1806 that the lack of a bridge over a new drainage ditch deprived them of "a Road to Ditton for Coals and other Fuel [which] is an additional expense in the Carriage" [Don Crane, The highways and byways of Fulbourn (1991), p.105.] Listing: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1331306 ; RCHM: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/vol2/pp47-65 (item 3).

C17 barn undergoing repair and conversion to a house. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1127868 . Rookery Farm itself is in the background on the left (with a modern extension on the far left) and the rear of a recently built house is on the right.

C17 barn undergoing repair and conversion to a house. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1127868 . The building with the curved iron roof is a cart lodge, apparently built between 1880 and 1900; it is said to be quite an early use of corrugated iron: plan.scambs.gov.uk/swiftlg/MediaTemp/1128915-459916.pdf . Rookery Farm itself is in the background on the right.