Site Event/Activity record ECH6433 - Historic Building Recording at Springbank Farm, Bradwall Road, Bradwall, Sandbach, Cheshire

An historic building survey was undertaken at Springbank Farm, Bradwall Road, Bradwall, Sandbach between the 5th and 6th June 2017. The survey recorded a barn comprising three principal construction phases, the first two of which seem to have been present by 1840 and the third by 1875. The building originally comprised a single unit, possibly used as a cart shed or coach house with granary above. Built onto this was a multi-purpose barn providing space for the storage, and possible processing of crops, as well as accommodation for animals. Finally the building was connected to the range of farm buildings to the north by a covered link area. The building has undergone a number of alterations, generally the insertion of doors and windows, presumably associated with the modernisation of farming practices or a change of focus from cattle rearing and/or dairying to livery service. (1)