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Portway Farm, Twyford
THE HS2 HISTORIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT PROJECT
Portway Farm was included in the society's
Response to the HS2 Environmental Statement in February 2014.
Click here to read
the section on Twyford.
Portway, today a large modern farm to the east of the village with a big dairy herd, was part of the estate held by
Oxford's Lincoln College until 1885.
The proposed HS2 line would pass just a field away from the dairy buildings, and a section of the farm's land would be taken for a permanent rail maintenance depot.
The farmhouse itself dates from around 1800, but incorporates the kitchen hall of an earlier timber-framed building dating from around 1650. The 1800 rebuildiung wuld have been funded by Lincoln College.
The farm buildings include an unusual threshing barn with lattice brickwork, two decorative dovecotes, and the remains of a ‘horse gin’ which would once have been used to power machinery in the dairy. The report suggests that the threshing barn should be ‘listed’ as a historic building in its own right.
For full details and recommendations, see:
Portway Farm, Twyford : BAS Report 2011-03 April 2011
Twyford : BAS Response to the HS2 Environmental Statement - February 2014
PHOTO BY JULIA WISE