Blackthorpe Barn - Rougham
Blackthorpe Barn - Blackthorpe Barn
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Rougham
Suffolk
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Blackthorpe Barn description
Commercial Venue
Medium (1-150)
The Blackthorpe Barn was built round 1550, probably by John Drury who had just acquired the Manor of Rougham through the dissolution of the great Benedictine abbey at Bury St Edmunds in 1539.
The barn’s purpose was to be used for the threshing and storage of grain. It continued as a grain store until 1985.
The barn is timber framed. It has one side aisle and a central threshing floor between the two pairs of large doors, but its most striking feature is its vast thatched roof, over 30 metres long.
A threshing barn provided storage and working space. Unthreshed sheaves of corn were stored at one end of the building whilst threshed grain and straw were stored at the other end. In the centre was the threshing floor between the two great sets of double doors. The higher set of doors provided access for carts to drive in. There they were unloaded and were driven out empty through the lower set of doors.
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