Descriptive Buildings Record (Level 2) at No. 41 High Street, Feckenham

The building recording takes the form of a Level 2 historic building recording as defined by Historic England 2016 Understanding Historic Buildings: a guide to good recording practice. Archaeological monitoring of groundworks associated with the development comprised mechanical excavation of a service trench extending from the stables building across the yard to the house. All excavations were monitored apart from (with the agreement of the LPA's advisor) an area adjacent to the house that had been heavily disturbed by the installation of an electric cable. The buildings in their current form are of two storeys, comprising a ground floor plus attic and are two and a half bays with several phases of adaptation and extension. Features survive within the buildings related to their use as a stable, including remnants of a manger and a loose box. Possible evidence of a foundation of an earlier building was recorded in a trial pit excavated in the north of the site. Archaeological monitoring of a service trench extending from the stables building to the house demonstrated that the gravel surface with a sand base was laid directly over natural substrate comprising a reddish brown clay with cobbles. This was cut by a well-made French drain close to the stable building comprising two courses of lime mortared bricks with a lias stone capping. The base of the drain was laid with tiles. It was also cut by a modern plastic foul pipe. No other features or finds of archaeological significance were recorded.