Octagonal red brick structure that once had a facetted slate roof with a single doorway and two windows. Probably erected in the first half of the 19th century. The exterior of the walls had been rendered, occasionally grooved to represent stonework. The walls are one brick thick and of English Garden Wall Bond. 2.28m wide and over 2.44m high at the walls’ highest point. At the time of the survey the roof and top courses of the walls had been destroyed by a falling tree. The door and door surround were still present. Comparable structure at Heydon Hall in Norfolk. (1)

OS 2nd Ed 25” 1:2500 1898 Annotated as ‘Deer Barn’ and shows pine trees planted in a ring, with the deer barn close to the northern edge and inside the circle.

Photographed by NCC in 2017, destroyed roof cleared. Door and door surround had been removed. Wall had been rebuilt in the area of the windows.

<1> TPAU, 2005, An Historic Building Survey of a Deer Barn at Thoresby, Notts (Unpublished document). SNT4801.