Farm buildings

Like today, a range of farm buildings was in use. In the Herefordshire Historic Environment Record there is evidence for at least three stables (in Leominster, Kington, and Weobley), a 15th century cowshed made of stone rubble in Longtown and several medieval barns.

Tithe barns

These barns are an integral part of the medieval landscape. People had to give a tenth of their harvest to the church and this produce was collected and kept in tithe barns. There are five tithe barns recorded in the HER, one of them a 13th-century aisled barn belonging to the Nunnery of Cormeilles (in France) who had land in the parish of Kings Pyon.

[Original author: Toria Forsyth-Moser, 2002]