To the south of the development area, there was evidence of post-medieval walls and floors likely associated with the building’s former use as a threshing barn were encountered throughout the works.

The bricks retained from three walls and from the floor were handmade, post-medieval bricks likely pre-1850s where the imperial brick was designed and mass-produced.

In the southwest corner of the exavated area of the site, within the subsoil layer, there was an east-west aligned red brick wall. This wall was only one course and had a cement mortar binding it and was 2.47m in length, 0.24m wide and 0.06m thick in total. The wall had an unknown bond due to their only being one course present, but the bricks present were laid in stretcher, with the brick building materials being 215mm in length, 100mm in width and 50mm in height per brick.

The east-west aligned wall abutted a larger wall to the north and was aligned north to south. This wall was 10.40m in length and 0.37m in width and was 0.06m thick and was bonded with lime mortar and was only of one course. This second wall had an unknown bond due to only one course present, however the north 4.88m of the wall were laid in stretcher, with the southern 5.52m of this second wall being a row of bricks laid in header which had bricks laid in stretcher running parallel on each side. The brick building
materials of this wall were 215mm in length, 100mm in width and 50mm in height per brick.

A further wall abutted the north-south aligned wall to the west of the centre of the wall. This third wall was an east-west aligned red brick wall which was one course bonded with lime mortar with each brick being 215mm in length, 100mm in width and 50mm in height per brick. This wall was 1.02m in length, 0.23m in width and 0.06m in height and had an unknown bond type due to only one course being present, but the bricks were laid in stretcher.

Abutted by one wall to the south, a second wall to the east and a third wall to the north, lay a floor. The floor was sub-rectangular in plan and was constructed of unbonded red brick laid rowlock in a stretcher bond. The floor was 4.50m in length, 2.47m in width and 0.10m thick. To the north of the floor and truncating it, was a sub-rectangular hard yellow grey concrete structure, with a reinforced steel joint in the centre. The structure was not fully excavated but was 0.87m in length and 1m in width. The use of the structure is not clear, but with it truncating the floor, which suggests it is later in date than the floor. The three walls and the floor were likely a former post-medieval ‘courtyard’ and enclosing walls associated with the prior use of the building.

Hazel Taylor, 2025, Archaeological Monitoring and Recording: Threshing Barn East, Church Lane, Lowdham, Nottingham (Unpublished document). SNT5976.