The project was a historic building record of the Grade II listed Drax Barn and adjoining Drax Cottage, in Orcheston, Wiltshire prior to redevelopment as a condition of listed building consent.The Historic Building Record was commensurate with English Heritage Level 2 (descriptive) recording guidelines and involved photographic survey and a historic map regression. The buildings comprise a large timber framed barn to the west and an adjoining two-storey brick building to the east, which consists of a former pigsty with first floor dwelling above. The timber framed barn is five bays in length and set on a flint and brick plinth wall. The barn is aisled to the east and west and has a central threshing floor with tall midstrey entrance on the west side. The whole barn has been the subject of recent contemporary conversion into a dwelling. Stylistically, the historic frame would appear to date to the 18th century. Drax Cottage abuts the south-eastern corner of the barn. It is two-storey with ground floor retaining some former 19th century pigsties. Part of the ground floor has been converted into a workshop and most of the pigsty openings blocked up and front pig-pens demolished in the mid-late 20th century. The first floor was converted into a dwelling in what may originally have been a feed store loft. The two buildings were originally part of a larger yard which included a farmhouse and extensive outbuildings which went out of use in the mid - late 20th century.