An Oxfordshire farm growing hops has a 78-metre Shufflebottom
building, partitioned into two sections 48 metres and 30 metres
long, to store both crops and machinery. The substantial
steel-framed building is 24 metres wide and 6 metres high to the
eaves. It has been constructed for Blanchard Enterprises on New
House Farm, Southmoor, Abingdon, which is thought to be the only
farm in Oxfordshire to grow hops commercially.
The steelwork for the building is shotblast to B.S. SA 2.5 and
is painted in 75 micron zinc phosphate high-build primer in green.
The roof cladding is natural grey P6R fibre cement with closed
ridges. The sides, which have Ultrazed side rails, are clad in
Shufflebottom vertical 0.5mm 1000/33mm plastic-coated box profile.
The doors include one that is 8 metres wide and 5.2 metres high,
and two that are 6 metres wide and 5.5 metres high. The roller
shutter doors, powered by three-phase electricity, are
galvanised.
The crop store part of the building, the smaller 30-metre
section, is lined with 2-metre high, 140mm thick pre-stressed
concrete panels, which also form an internal division.