Manor Farm, Church Lane, West Rasen, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire: Historic Building Survey

Photography was undertaken in 35mm digital SLR colour photography (using a 10.4 Mpixel format). Photography was undertaken of the historic farm buildings to create a primary archive and included general shots of the site and detailed photography of room arrangement; main elevations and constructional details such as window openings, and fixtures and fittings, such as doors and window fenestration. At the time of the survey many of the outbuildings were in a poor state of repair: part of the north range had lost its roof and had partially collapsed. Some areas had also become extensively overgrown. Access in these areas was undertaken only when accompanied and some areas were not entered for safety reasons. None of the upper floors were accessed because of the state of the timbers. The buildings at Manor Farm provide physical evidence of the evolution of farming practices from the early 19th to the mid-20th century in rural Lincolnshire. Although the land is shown as undeveloped on the early 19th-century draft enclosure plan, a farm clearly existed on the site before the date of the late 19th-century first edition OS maps, which show it with the plan form largely seen now. The farm has been historically associated with the watermill to the north from the earliest available documentary sources. By the late 19th century, the farm had become a 'C-plan' farm with buildings closely arranged around a south-facing crewyard, representing an expensive and planned conversion to a crewyard arrangement of the high farming movement in central Lincolnshire. While it is clear that it incorporated elements of earlier farm buildings into its final form, it is difficult to interpret the precise form and nature of its forerunner, as only those elements of it which fitted the new arrangement were retained. Whilst the original buildings have lost many of their primary fixtures and fittings, their original layout and quality of construction - albeit with some alteration - allows them to be considered as a good example of a late 19th-century farm complex which retains some well-preserved elements, such as the two-storey barn and stable with hay loft over. This building survey has recorded and provided an archive of the farm outbuilding complex, to preserve it by record prior to demolition and the consequent loss of historic evidence contained in its fabric.

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