Site Event/Activity record ECH6511 - Booth Green Farm, Pedley Hill, Adlington, Cheshire: Historic Building Record - Level 2

Building survey undertaken in 2017 at Booth Green Farm, Pedley Hill in advance of conversion of a stone barn to a dwelling, also demolition of dilapidated agricultural buildings and their replacement with a new building. The barn is depicted on the Prestbury Tithe Map of circa 1850 which records Booths Green Farm as comprising a house, buildings and yard owned by Charles Richard Banastre Legh and occupied by Samuel Hunt. Also both the farmhouse and stone barn appear to be depicted on two early maps of Cheshire (Greenwood 1819, Bryant 1831). The building is a two-storey rectangular structure orientated northwest to southeast; along which axis it measures 10.75m by 6.0m approximately northwest to southeast. It has a dual-pitch roof comprising of slate roof tiles hooked over modern wooden battens and walls comprising of a mix of rubble and red brick bonded by mortar. The loft appears to have been added at a later date on the upper floor. The ground floor has been bisected along its axis north-west to south-east, partitioning the floor plan roughly in half. To the north of the ground floor there is a small store room/byre which may have originally had access to the main barn via a low wide doorway in the dividing wall. The primary feature of the building is the double height doorway with brick basket archway that opens onto the upper and lower floors; this doorway appears to have been split at some point in the past so as that it opens bilaterally. The doorway may have been designed in this manner in order to accommodate large carts or trailers; with the upper floor acting as hayloft storage while the lower floor could have been used to house carts and animals. (1)