EDO5780 - Cross Farm, Church Street, Yetminster; building recording 2013

Historic building recording and limited archaeological monitoring and recording required in mitigation of a development proposal to convert and extend former agricultural buildings to form a dwelling, and erection of a garage. Photographic recording was carried out to supplement an historic building survey by Greenslade Taylor Hunt in October 2011, and this was accompanied by investigations around the area of a former water pump/well. The early nineteenth-century farmyard was bounded to the west by a large open-sided two-storey barn, which may have been present by 1809. A similar barn to the north of the farmyard was certainly present by 1840. By 1888 the northern side of the farmyard was occupied by a large barn incorporating part of the earlier structure and the northern end of the earliest barn. A large threshing barn was built on the southern side of the farmyard. In the late nineteenth century a small pig sty or sheep pen was added to the north and a curved open-sided cattle shed to the west, forming a yard on the western side of the earlier barn. All five buildings had undergone blocking or alteration of original openings. The farmyard complex was subject to further alteration in the twentieth centuyr, with addition and sometimes removal of ancillary structures, a large open-sided shelter and a small brick-built structure.