Barn 20 Metres South East Of Hay Green Farmhouse

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TL60SW HAY GREEN LANE 723-1/2/25 (North West side) Barn 20 metres south-east of Hay Green Farmhouse

GV II

Barn. Early C17, incorporating fragment of late medieval building. Timber-framed, weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The main barn is early C17, of 5 bays with central midstrey facing S. It is attached at the right end to 2 bays of a late medieval building formerly of 2 storeys, possibly of domestic origin. C19 and C20 single-storey attached buildings to front left and rear right. EXTERIOR: the original great doorway of the midstrey has been boarded over, with one fixed light and one plain boarded door. Dormer in catslide roof to left of midstrey. The rear wall has the original great doorway, 3 high loading doors, and a halved door to the medieval part. INTERIOR: the main barn has unjowled posts, heavy studding and girts, primary straight bracing, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, cambered tie-beams with arched braces, and queen post roof. Some of the studding below the girts have been replaced, and some parts bricked up to the girts. The left end wall is faced with red brick in Flemish bond to tie-beam level, the studding of the gable exposed. Some of the rafters have been replaced, reportedly under war damage. The cladding retains some hardwood weatherboards, mostly softwood. The medieval building has jowled posts, heavy studding with curved braces trenched to the outside, girts and jointing for former binding beams of the original floor, removed. In the right end wall there are 6 diamond mortices and a square groove in the soffit of the tie-beam for former unglazed windows with sliding shutters. Cambered tie-beams with arched braces. The walls have been raised approx 0.6m in the C18, with bladed scarfs in the wallplates, and the roof re-built in clasped purlin form to align with that of the main barn. The C19 attached building to front left is of red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with red clay pantiles. Shown in estate map of 1832 and highway diversion map of 1810. (Essex Record Office: D/DQ 50/6,Q/RHI 3/63).

Listing NGR: TL6055100023