Images from a Building Recording at Naunton House Farm, Naunton Beauchamp, Pershore, Worcestershire 2021
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5284/1088146. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
This collection comprises images from a building recording carried out by Worcestershire Archaeology at Naunton House Farm, Naunton Beauchamp, Pershore, Worcestershire, in April 2021. It was commissioned by L A Righton Rural Planning Consultancy on behalf of their client in advance of proposed removal of the majority of an unstable 18th century building, with retention of the west internal division.
Naunton House Farm comprised a relatively complete set of buildings up until the middle of the 20th century, when a number of these were demolished, most notably the buildings around a yard on the eastern side of the site. This area is likely to have centred around manure production from cows with crop waste from the barn to the north. The majority of the buildings around this yard were removed in the second half of the 20th century.
The building recorded in this project had some elements of unusual layout and a limewashed interior, potentially suggesting that it was used as both cow house and dairy, though conclusive evidence to this effect was removed by 20th century truncation and coverings. Its broadly 18th century date is likely to reflect a movement in Worcestershire towards dairy herds which continued into the 19th century. Surviving examples of pre-19th-century cow houses are rare in a national context, though it is far from certain that this was the function of this structure, given that so little remains. The interpretation is supported by the structure having been used as a dairy from the late 1950s.
