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Summary

Site of horse engine house, Lower Langage Farm.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HORSE ENGINE HOUSE (XVIII to World War I - 1785 AD to 1914 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Horse engine house visible on east side of corn barn. Map object based on this Source.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

Horse engine house, visible on east side of corn barn.

Ordnance Survey, 1913 - 1914, Third Edition Ordnance Survey Six Inch Map (Cartographic). SDV347459.

Horse engine house is not present.

Waterhouse, R., 2005, Barn at Lower Langage Farm: An Archaeological Assessment (Report - Survey). SDV360282.

It seems likely that the building remained in use as a threshing barn during this period, but with hand-threshing abandoned, as the 1840 Tithe Map (Map 2) shows a semi-circular horse engine house attached to the east side of the building. The 1889 and 1906 maps show this to have been an open-sided structure, probably with a half-conical slate roof. It would have contained a vertical timber shaft on bearings, with a large-diameter ring-gear, driven round by a pony or donkey.

The early to mid 19th century horse engine was still present in 1906 , but had been removed by 1930, when the present stockyard to the east had replaced it.

Ordnance Survey, 2012, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV348725.

Map object based on this Source.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7306 - Lower Langage Farm: Historic Building Recording (Ref: K604)
• EDV7311 - Historic Building Record: The Barn at Lower Langage Farm, Sparkwell

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