Here are a few pictures from the Barn now that we have started work.

Reclaimed London granite kerbs!

Laying the Granite cobbles

Below is the 5.2meter bat post

Two Bat concrete boxes

New Bat canopy mounted on the gable end of the Barn.These bats better be happy when its all finished

Another concrete bat box 1 of 2 together they cost £280

These are for the bats to hang from inside the canopy

Finish bat canopy

Below is 1 of 4 slots in the ridge for the bats to use.

Below is the footing so we can block the old opening up and a trailer load of reclaimed bricks some older than Australia!

Below is the Cherry picker I used to search for the bats with the ecologist no bats were found!!! I can now develop the barn and started by stripping the roof!!!

We are keeping the two old wooden beams below

Removing the old floor from the Barn

Check out the bad brickwork it is so bad you can see through the wall.

This has been caused by the bricks getting wet with rain followed by frosts that slowly over years erode the bricks.

Digging up the barn floor, I removed about 12 tonnes to get to the level required.

This brick in the barn was fired with this foot print in it!

Here are 2 wooden  hooks that were used to hang up the saddles

Bad brickwork above by the barn door is now repaired below

Summer in the village

Winter at the 2 staithes in the village

Barton Broad a short walk from the village

The footings of the barn not bad for 1834

Starting the New Roof

New timbers ready to take to Norfolk

6 Oak beams 250mm x 150 x 4.5M weighing about 150KG each

The beams were a bit too heavy for my trailer bending this bar below!

I layed an extra layer of bricks followed by 100mm x 75mm wall plate

This is how I managed to get the beams on to the roof after the Scaffold lift I hired fail to lift the beams!!

3 remote opening velux windows which are over the bedroom

Gable end and window brickwork repairs

Oak Beams with their struts these three will be above the bedroom.

Roof is finally finished on the 1st August

Inside the barn looking up at the oak beams and velux windows

Orginal and new wooden beams

First floor doorway

Scaffolding was removed on 10th August

Margaret here is the14th century village church reconstructed on the site of a 12th century church. The walls are built with flint with stone and brick dressing. The nave and chancel are thatched. The church is 150 meters from the river Ant. 

Here is a Norfolk Wherry on the river