Images from Historic Building Recording at Old Steadings, Merryshield Farm, Stocksfield, Northumberland, June 2024

This collection comprises images from Historic Building Recording at Old Steadings, Merryshield Farm, Stocksfield, Northumberland. Work was carried out by Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited in June 2024. The historic building recording of the farm building was completed in advance of conversion into a single dwelling. The available cartographic evidence suggests that the farm buildings at Merryshield Common were built in the mid 19th century, between 1842 and 1865, as a purpose-built, planned farm built from local stone rubble and adopting a courtyard plan. This included open, guttered, stockyards, open fronted cowhouses with granary, straw house, farmhands cottage and a threshing barn. The latter originally including threshing apparatus driven by an external open-sided gin gang. The building at the time of survey was redundant and parts, particularly the former cottage, had suffered collapse.