Luckinghouse Farm Oast House Approximately 8 Metres West Of House

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GREAT MAPLESTEAD LUCKING STREET Luckinghouse Farm Oast House approx. 8 metres west of House

(Formery listed as Luckinghouse Farm Oast House approx. 8 metres south-west of House)

G.V. II

Oast House. Circa 1700. Red brick built. Late C19 re-roof. Corrugated asbestos clad, hipped to right. Dentilled eaves cornice. Central band. Weatherboarded gable. 2 storeys. Vertically boarded door to gable end. 2 Window openings to ground floor. Loft door and louvred opening to first floor. A building of 4 bays, the western being the drying room. The 3 bay, 2 storey working and storage area with heavy chamfered bridging joists to first floor. Side purlin roof construction. Lifting hoist with original chain attached to collar above the trap door. Clay floor. Drying room has brick internal partition wall with central firing arch and quarter arches to right and left, the latter now bricked up. Brick floor. Timber support beams at first floor level, but drying floor missing. Timber framing to square ventilator opening under present roof structure. 4 ventilator holes to north and south walls. Scratched date "1855 MIN PCN" on interior brickwork. A hop yard adjoined the farmyard C19 and the building is reputed to have been in use 1870. A rare survival in Essex.

Listing NGR: TL8109234433