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Feb
Time Team farm to gain swimming pool and yoga room
A Nidderdale farm with medieval connections to the monks of Fountains Abbey looks set to be converted into holiday accommodation with swimming pool, yoga room and guest shop, after twin planning applications were approved by council planners on Monday (February 17).
The owners of Brimham Hall Farm – which has been used in recent years as a livery yard – have change of use and listed building consents to convert farm buildings into four holiday lets, and to build a two-storey extension to the main farmhouse, as well as a detached workshop and stables built into the hillside.
A CGI of how the swimming pool will look. Image: Den Architecture.
Brimham Hall Farm, which lies within sight of Brimham Rocks, gained widespread fame in 2006, when it was featured in an episode of Channel 4’s popular Time Team programme, fronted by Tony Robinson.
Archaeologists on the programme, titled The Monk’s Manor, believed that the property was one of the 25 granges that formed part of the extensive Fountains Abbey estate.
They found that the earliest buildings at the farm dated from the late 14th century, but parts of it had been reused from earlier structures.
Elaborate stonework incorporated into field walls and outhouses included Latin inscriptions and were very similar to the masonry of Fountains Abbey.
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