Barn 65 Metres North West Of Church Hall Farmhouse

KELVEDON LONDON ROAD TL 8418-8518 (north-west side)

9/248 Barn 65 metres north- 21.12.67 west of Church Hall Farmhouse (formerly listed as Barn at Church Hall Farm)

GV II Barn. C14 and C16. Timber framed, weatherboarded, roofed mainly with handmade red plain tiles, and some machine-made tiles. 3 bays aligned NE-SW, C14, and 4 bays to SW, late C16. 2 aisles of full length. Midstrey to SE of third bay from NE end, with catslide extensions to each side of it. Other lean-to extensions of no architectural interest to NE, SE and SW. Jowled posts throughout, including midstrey. Heavy studding. The 3 NE bays have straight braces to the arcade-plates and tiebeams; in the arcade-plates there are edge-halved and bridled scarfs with face keys, probably early examples of the type; the arcade-posts have oblique trenches for former passing-braces terminating at mortices in the tiebeams. An early C16 crownpost roof structure survives over 2 of these bays, with plain crownposts and thin straight axial braces. The 4 SW bays have arched braces to the arcade-plates and tiebeams; a face-halved and bladed scarf over each arcade-post; and a clasped purlin roof with collars at half-bay intervals. 2 full-height partitions of lapped boards. 2 threshing bays, the SW with gables and great doors at both ends. Some wattle and daub infill in sides of midstrey. Some brick infill below the NH wallplate. Machine-made roof tiles on the SW bay only. RCHM 57.

Listing NGR: TL8558818310