LOWER FARM BARN WASING WEST BERKSHIRE

Abstract

A proposal to convert two farm buildings at Lower Farm on the Wasing Estate in West Berkshire allowed their recording prior to the development. The buildings themselves, a late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth century barn and a mid-nineteenth century cartshed/granary were of some local interest but of particular significance was a surviving breastshot waterwheel with gearing and overhead shaft which powered farm machinery within the barn.