Barn (Now Workshop) 100 Metres West Of Ingatestone Hall

A barn, now a workshop, dating from the 13th or early 14th century, with substantial rebuilding in the early to mid 16th century and later repairs and additions, is situated 100 metres west of Ingatestone Hall. The barn is timber-framed, with weatherboarding and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It has five bays aligned northwest to southeast, with 19th-century lean-to additions to the southwest and an extension to the southeast. The northeast elevation features four early 19th-century three-light casement windows with rectangular leading. A vehicle passage runs through the middle bay. Gable hips are present at each end. A reused early 18th-century door with two moulded panels and 12 lights with ovolo-moulded glazing bars is located in the northwest end. A lean-to stable to the west has three 19th-century casements, three halved doors, three louvred vents, and a large louvred vent in the roof, which is tiled with red clay 'Roman' tiles. A lean-to to the southwest of the southeast end has a catslide roof that slopes with the main roof. The extension to the southeast incorporates an 18th or early 19th-century garden wall aligned with the northeast elevation, built in Flemish stretcher bond with a dogtooth course and coping, and extends further in red brick in English bond.

The interior retains unjowled main posts of 13th or early 14th-century origin, with oblique trenches for former passing braces, some turned at right angles to their original positions. The northeast wallplate is also mainly of 13th or early 14th-century origin, with a trait-de-Jupiter scarf, an edge-halved and bridled scarf dating from the 16th-century rebuild, and a face-halved and bladed scarf, which is a later repair. This wallplate is grooved for former wattle and daub infill. The southwest plate is not grooved and has arched braces indicating that there was previously a continuous aisle on this side only, now replaced by the two lean-tos. There is heavy studding with curved 'Suffolk' bracing trenched to the outside, alongside later studding with primary straight bracing below the southwest (former arcade) plate. The southeast end retains 16th-century wattle and daub infill. Straight bracing is found on cambered tie-beams. A clasped purlin roof has a ridge, and many of the rafters are reused, with oblique trenches for former collars from the 16th-century construction. The vehicle passage is lined with asbestos sheets to the northwest and above, and with concrete blocks to the southeast. Two bays to the southeast form a carpenters workshop, with an inserted floor above, and all walls and the ceiling are lined with asbestos sheets. One bay to the northwest of the passage is also floored. The lean-to stables retain three loose boxes with 19th-century fittings. The kennels in the southeast extension retain 19th-century iron grills on each side of a central passage.