Building Survey at Hidcote Manor Cottages & Manor Farmhouse
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Abstract
The format of this report was specified in the Brief (Appendix 1). The survey was carried out in accordance with the relevant guidance (Historic England 2015) and consists of a Level 2/3 survey of the buildings. The site surveys, including photography and supplementary measured plans, were carried out by Robert Waterhouse, with additional recording and site photography by Bryn Morris. The recording works were initiated in September 2021 but only completed in November 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Eight cottages (nos. 1-8), a large farmhouse (Manor Farmhouse), a set of ruins (former cottages), a line of garages (former an agricultural shelter shed), and a war memorial were recorded as part of this programme of works. Most of the site plans are based on the ones produced as part of the 1988 VBS survey (Knox & Moore 1988) and are subject to the limitations thereof. This report contains a 'point in time' record of all the historic residential dwellings at the NT property of Hidcote Bartrim with the exception of the current main house. Eight buildings, one ruin, and several outbuildings are considered in detail. All of these buildings are built in vernacular materials and in a vernacular style: pale yellow limestone walls with ridged roofs of slate, tile or thatch. All of the dwellings have been modified and adapted over time by a succession of owners, most notably by the NT, who acquired the property in 1948. The Manor has a complex and confusing descent. As with other NT properties, the Hidcote Bartrim Estate is the end product of a process of relatively recent consolidation. There are two Hidcotes (Bartrim and Boyce), and during the post-medieval period there were at least three tenements at Hidcote Bartrim in separate ownership. Whether these three tenements were all originally held by Evesham Abbey is unclear, but the owners of Hidcote Manor (William Freeman II and Gertrude Winthrop) acquired the other two in 1796 and 1919, their individual identify has been lost and their significance ceded to the Hidcote Manor estate. Detailed historical work on the other two tenements would bring balance to the current narrative for the property. In terms of what may be said of the individual tenements, it is clear that as well as what is now termed the Manor Farmhouse (No.10), Nos.7/7a was a substantial and important farmhouse. It is possible Cottage Nos. 1&2 also represented a farmhouse, albeit of lesser status. It is possible - but unclear - whether they were all fully built of stone from the beginning, or incorporated timber elements that were progressively replaced over time. By the 17th century three of the tenements here were sufficiently prosperous to invest in fashionable hooded windows in impressive façades. In the 18th century only one property - the main house - was again updated, implying the other two farmhouses were of reduced status. The upgrading of the main house to tall transom/sash windows may well have provided the stone mullioned windows that were inserted into the other cottages and which form such a clear feature of the hamlet. The three farmhouses were accompanied by six or more smaller cottage dwellings, presumably the homes of the landless labourers working on the farms. Nonetheless, these cottages were sturdily built all possessed large fireplaces suitable for cooking and baking, implying these were not the humblest of dwellings. These structures have undergone the most drastic remodelling - Nos.9a-9c reduced to ruins, and Cottage Nos. 1&2, 3, 5 and 8 rebuilt and internally reorganised - to the extent the true value of the buildings as historical artefacts has been undermined.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".