Images from Historic Building Recording at New Moors Farm, Evenwood Gate, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, July 2024

This collection comprises images from Historic Building Recording at New Moors Farm, Evenwood Gate, Bishop Auckland, County Durham. Work was carried out by Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd Durham in July 2024. The farm buildings surveyed were a purpose-built planned farm adopting a typical courtyard plan with a single south-facing open stockyard and open fronted cow shed, cow houses and a large threshing barn with threshing apparatus driven by an external gin gang. The buildings remained relatively unchanged during their lifetime, with few structural changes to the principal components apart from the removal of the gin gang, some re-fenestration works and the blocking or opening of doorways. Later changes occurred post-war, although appears to have remained in use for cattle until the late 20th century, when the farm transferred to an equestrian use and a small livery yard was added to the east.