Project background

Now the site of a major new housing development Peacock Farm at Jennett’s Park on the north edge of Bracknell, Berkshire has been the site of episodes of human occupation for thousands of years.

After a period of inactivity during the Neolithic period activity recommenced in the middle Bronze Age. Characteristics of the period comprised two waterholes, three burnt mounds and two trough-like pits and a possible cremation burial or deliberately-placed pot.

A small farmstead was established on the site during the middle iron age but was abandoned before the Roman period. A series of enclosures were in use during the 11th and 12th centuries and a field system was developed and in use until the mid 14th century.

The existing farm dates back to the early 19th century and had fallen into a state of disrepair. The farmhouse, buildings and the land directly around them were purchased by brewers Hall & Woodhouse in 2006 for conversion into a public house.

Carpenter Oak & Woodland were contracted to undertake the conservation work on the timber frames within the barns. Following a detailed survey of the frames and the development of a repair strategy the timber frames were tagged, dismantled and removed to our framing yard in Wiltshire.

Being able to bring the oak frames into our workshop gives us some significant advantages. It helps to keep the clients costs down because our staff don’t have to stay away or travel daily to the site. Being under cover and working at ground level inevitably make our work on the oak frames more efficient and again saves cost for the client.

Once all the oak frame repairs had been carried out they were returned to site and carefully re-erected. Peacock Farm is now a thriving, bustling public house set on the new Jennett’s Park residential estate.

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The dilapidated barn back on 2006

The farmhouse at Peacock Farm in 2006 prior to the start of work on site

The barn after completion

The farmhouse after completion

The interior. The shocking state of the roof covering had contributed to the poor condition of the frame A number of the primary structural posts had failed badly a their intersection with the main roof timbersConsidering this is a listed building it had been allowed to deteriorate to an appalling stateThe completed interior now a thriving public houseSome of the many repairs needed to the oak frame to bring it back to its former glory

 

 

 

 

 

 

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