Building record 1574503000 - Outbuilding at Well Farm, Dagnall

History:
The Original Series Ordnance Survey (OS) One Inch map (published 1822-1834) marks Well Farm as a set of three buildings. The Edlesborough Tithe map (1848) shows the site in greater detail including the house with an L-shaped footprint, a projecting porch and a further structure at the north-east corner. The barn, with a central porch, is located on the west side of the farmyard, and the stable block to the north. The accompanying apportionment records the site within the ownership of the Countess of Bridgewater. The house plot is described as 3 cottages and garden, tenanted to Richard Collyers, James James and William Walker; the stable block falls under the same tenancy. The barn to the west is under the tenancy of William Peppercorn.
In 1924 Well Farm was sold by the Bridgewater family’s Ashridge Estate. In the mid-C20 and C21 the farmhouse underwent further remodelling. The outbuilding was constructed in the mid-C20 and a further wing added to the north in the late C20.
Details:
Outbuilding, mid-C20, extended in late C20.
MATERIALS: timber-frame clad in weatherboarding and a tile roof.
PLAN: T-shaped plan.
EXTERIOR: the building is a weatherboard clad structure with pitched roof. The entrance is at the centre of the south elevation.
INTERIOR: a stud wall timber frame with curving wall braces and a queen-strut roof (B1).