Barn 110 Metres North West Of Ingatestone Hall

This building is a barn located 110 metres north-west of Ingatestone Hall, dating from the late 16th century. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The barn consists of six bays aligned approximately east-west, with an aisle to the north only. There is a later midstrey in the third bay of the aisle from the west end.

The north side features 19th-century great doors that are ledged and saltire-braced on the inside, along with one fixed light to the east of the midstrey. The south side has an aperture for double doors that has been blocked with light studding and weatherboarding, and it includes one fixed light, plus two more fixed lights to the west of it. There is an early 19th-century casement window with four over four lights in the west gable, which is partly covered by a 20th-century barn to the west. The barn has a red brick plinth that is one metre high at the south-west corner, with a lower height elsewhere due to the site's gradient. All the weatherboarding has been treated with gas tar, and there is a gablet hip at the east end.

Inside, the barn features jowled arcade posts, aisle posts, and south wall posts, with heavy studding that is tenoned and pegged. The bracing varies in type and period, with curved braces trenched inside the studs at the east end, and curved braces trenched outside the studs in the east bay of the south wall. There is no original bracing below the girts, but heavy primary straight bracing is present elsewhere. The arcade plate has three edge-halved and bridled scarfs, while the aisle plate features face-halved and bladed scarfs. The south wall plate has been much repaired. The roof has high clasped purlins with two vertical queen struts to each collar and curved wind braces. The two west bays contain heavy rafters of vertical section that are not in the original rafter seatings, and the remainder of the roof has been rebuilt with thinner rafters at a later date.

A 19th or 20th-century inserted floor exists in the two west bays, with a partition made of Flettons on the ground floor and weatherboards above. An additional plate has been bolted above the arcade plate in these bays. The barn features straight braces to straight tie-beams that are tenoned and pegged, along with additional 19th-century bolted grown knees that have been sawn with a circular saw. The barn is constructed of high-quality oak timber, which has been well maintained throughout its history.