Project:
Vellum Farm – a grain store, and general purpose agricultural and livestock units
Client:
Nigel Gates
Location:
Leicestershire
Reference:
K13379 / K13541 / K13204 / K13363 / K13540
Vellum Farm is situated on the Leicestershire/Rutland border owned and managed by Nigel Gates, one of Shufflebottom’s oldest customers, with a relationship going back over twenty-five years. This family farm supplies the beef and lamb for the quality produce demanded by Gates Farm shop, one of the leading farm shops in Leicestershire situated at nearby Gates Garden Centre.
Shufflebottom manufactured and delivered a range of agricultural steel-framed buildings including a grain store, a machinery shed, general purpose agricultural units and three livestock units of scale to home the Vellum Farm Shorthorn Cattle. The details which follow apply to a livestock building (K13541).
Building specifications
Main portal – 42.67m long x 5.90m wide x 8.81m to eaves
Lean-to either side – 42.67m long x 13.59m wide x 5.17m to eaves
Cattle-handling lean-to – 24.38m long x 8.91m wide x 3.19m to eaves
Building options
Steelwork shot-blast to B.S. SA 2.5.
Hot-dipped galvanized finish to BNEN 1461
Roof clad in P6R Fibre Cement with open protected ridges
46 x 2.89m long 8oz SAB Class 3 roof lights with red caps as per H&S requirements
