Outbuildings at Bridge Farm, Main Street, Haddington, Lincolnshire

Photography was undertaken in 35mm digital SLR colour photography (using a 10.4 Mpixel format). Photography was undertaken of the historic farm buildings to create a primary archive and included general shots of the site and detailed photography of room arrangement; main elevations and constructional details such as window openings, and fixtures and fittings, such as doors and window fenestration. Weather conditions on the day began heavily overcast with blowing snow laying to a depth of c. 5cm. It soon brightened up with occasional sunny intervals and the lying snow had melted by 11am. Low light levels necessitated the use of flash in all interior situations and included some fill-in flash to penetrate the shadows in the exterior shots. The photographs were further supplemented by Room-based record sheets and Brickwork recording sheets The buildings at Bridge Farm provide physical evidence of the evolution of farming practices from the late 18th to the late-20th century in rural Lincolnshire. It is certain that a farm existed on the site before the date of the late 19th-century first edition OS maps (the first to show the outbuildings subject to survey as part of a significantly larger group), as the farmhouse is shown on a tithe award plan of 1848 with a group of other outbuildings to the south. The farm complex which survives was built as a planned farm, the product of the more industrialised 'high farming' concept of agriculture. The appearance of this group was an 'E-plan' farm with buildings closely arranged around south-facing crewyards.