Building record 14352 - Nineteenth Century Barn, Grimsditch Farm, Mobberley

<1> Aeon Archaeology, 2018, Grimsditch Farm (Barn), Damson Lane, Mobberley, Cheshire WA16 7HY: Level 2 Historic Building Record, R4237 (Client Report). SCH8574.

A level 2 historic building record was undertaken in 2018 for the nineteeth century barn at Grimsditch Farm, Mobbersley, prior to refurbishment work and conversion into dwellings. The structure is not shown on the tithe map of 1838, but a building is shown at the location on the first edition 25” county series Ordnance Survey map of 1877. This structure includes the Barn, Hay Barn, Northwest Extension, and a Northeast-Southwest Range at the north-western end of the south-western elevation. It is clear from the structural evidence that the Northwest Extension is not original to the building and as such was added sometime between the production of the tithe map in 1838 and the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1877 – but after the construction of the Barn and Hay Barn. The 1877 map also shows that the building at this time was connected to the farmhouse via a Northeast-Southwest Range which has since been demolished. The location of this range is evident in the alteration of brick type at this location.

The recording work demonstrated four phases for the construction of the barn, dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century:-

Phase I: Barn, Hay Barn and Northeast-Southwest Range constructed between 1838 and 1877.
Phase II: Northwest Extension constructed between 1838 and 1877 but after Phase I.
Phase III: Northeast Extension constructed between 1877 and 1898 and Northeast- Southwest Range demolished.
Phase IV: Southwest Extension and Kennel Extension constructed after 1909 and Hay Barn wall bays infilled