Historical agricultural buildings make an essential contribution to the landscape character, as well as local diversity of the region, and are an integral part of our social heritage. They also stand for a significant property in regard to their capability to adapt to accommodate new uses.
However, traditional ranch structures are under great stress for modification because of the restructuring of the farming market and the high demand for their flexible re-use, particularly for real estate. A small proportion of the historic ranch structure stock undergoes listing and legal defense, and national research has shown that these marked possessions have already undergone significant modification.
Till just recently, there was a lack of proof based on the personality, as well as the condition of the whole stock of historic farm buildings, not just designated properties, on which to educate the delicate monitoring of change and the efficient targeting of preservation sources.
The new research intends to:
- Inform options for future change for plantations in agriculture, as well as other kinds of use
- Offer an understanding of the acquired personality of farmsteads throughout the region, their contribution to regional distinctiveness, as well as their social well as financial duty
- Notify positive plan as well as advice, based on an understanding of local context and the capacity for, as well as level of sensitivity, to transform of granges
A region-wide granges mapping program
Every one of the areas, as well as the city fringe, undergo a program of plantations mapping. This uses mapped based information on the circulation, as well as the pattern of all farmsteads, by using 19th century OS maps as a baseline. This is utilized to recognize substantial characteristics and levels of change and to target more in-depth field study of grange condition, character, and usage. This GIS-based data will boost as well as enhance the farmstead personality statements.
