Report, Images, Plans and Elevation Drawings, from a Level 3 Programme of Historic Building Work of Farm Buildings at Manor Farm, Pown Street, Sheen, 2022

This collection comprise the report, images, plans and elevation Drawings, from a Level 3 Programme of Historic Building Work of Farm Buildings at Manor Farm, Pown Street, Sheen, undertaken in 2022 by Mel Morris Conservation, commissioned by the property owner, in order to inform a 'Farming in Protected Landscapes' grant application, as required by the Peak District National Park Authority. Manor Farm was a farmhouse located within part of the estate of Richard Thomas Bateman in the early 19th century, and the freehold was sold at auction ca. 1825 to the tenant Thomas Wardle. The house and a large area of land was occupied by Thomas Wardle, and it seems likely that the farmhouse was probably rebuilt by him in the early 19th century. It remained farmed in the ownership of the Wardle family until the early 20th century at which point it was given the new name of Manor Farm, by the new owner, Arthur Henry Flower. The Critchlow family appears to have inherited the property via Elizabeth Mary Critchlow, wife of A H Flower.John Critchlow, her father, was recorded as the farmer in 1939 and Ralph Wood Critchlow, Elizabeth Mary's brother, was recorded as the farmer at his death in 1956. The three buildings which are the subject of this survey comprise a small privy, built during the18th or 19th century, and two farm buildings built sometime between 1922, when neither appear on the OS maps, and 1973, when both appear. The cartshed also contains the substantial remains of a roof truss and purlins from an earlier building, which is ex-situ. It seems most likely that the agricultural buildings were built in the 1930s or 40s by either John or his son Ralph Wood Critchlow re-using some parts of earlier buildings. Whilst there are no obvious candidates for predecessor buildings from the farmstead to the east side of Pown Street, the Tithe map indicates a range of farm buildings on the west side of Pown Street, in the same ownership, which are missing or enlarged by the date of the 1973 OS map and which may have been partially reconstructed within the east farmstead.