Monday 5th September 2011 marks the start of phase 2 of our construction work and, in many ways, the real objective of us being here. We've started work with an English stonemason, Adam of Farndon Restoration, on the construction of our barn renovation.
We started by knocking out the ceiling and small beams in the roof. Part of the ceiling was made with lath and daub: hundreds of short chestnut stakes had been painstakingly rolled in a mixture of mud and straw, then put between cross beams and the whole thing had been plastered from below with lime to create a ceiling. This must have taken a long, long time for whoever built the barn. The construction of the barn is interesting and more and more it seems as if it was built originally as a residence due to the detail and care taken in the construction. For the first time in probably 220 years the barn is open from the floor to the ceiling.
It was dirty, horrible work but has already made a huge difference as the attached photos show:
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| Work starts on pulling down the ceiling |
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| The high gable end to the barn is visible above the white stones |
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| Adam at work |
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| Ceiling out, just befor the small beams came out |
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