A small, regular courtyard plan farmstead that has historical associations with the nearby Serlby Hall estate and historical ownership by the Viscount(s) of Galway. The farm originated as a single threshing barn, situated close to a nearby track, that developed over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries through the addition of further buildings and apparent divergence into small-scale pastoral farming. Despite the variation in architecture and function, the buildings incorporate a common palette of red brick and clay pantiles that typifies the character of farms across Nottinghamshire. The late 18th/early 19th century threshing barn is the earliest building on the farm. Much altered and many features that identify its original threshing function have been lost, such as the original threshing floor, functioning opposing doors and apertures. The remaining buildings generally evidence the typical pattern of farmstead development during the 19th century with a standard typology of small farm buildings that evidence the keeping of cattle and a small dairying function, possibly alongside the pre-existing arable functions of the threshing barn. The enclosure of the surrounding landscape, by 1806, may then have prompted a shift to a more livestock focussed enterprise, with the construction of parallel ranges to house animals and the possible contemporaneous infilling of the southern door of the threshing barn, signalling the possible end of hand-threshing within the farmstead. (1)

<1> Cotswold Archaeology, 2023, Steer Bank Farm, Harworth, Historic Building Record (Level 3) by Cotswold Archaeology (Unpublished document). SNT5522.