Marchings Farmhouse

Marchings Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 16th or 17th century and has been significantly altered in the 19th century. It features a timber frame, is plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has a complex layout, primarily consisting of a main range that runs approximately northwest to southeast, with an axial chimney stack located near the northwest end and a service range at the southeast end that includes one internal and one external chimney stack. There is also a crosswing at the northwest end and several extensions at the rear. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics.

On the southwest elevation, the ground floor includes a 20th-century half-glazed door, French windows in a Gothick style from the 19th century, and three Gothick casement windows, with one exception. The first floor has two 19th-century casement windows, one 20th-century casement window, and three dormers featuring 20th-century casements. In the attic, there is a 19th-century casement window in the gable of the crosswing, a leaded casement window from the 20th century, and lean-to dormers with 19th-century casement windows.

The interior mainly dates from the 19th century and includes several Gothick features. Notably, there is a blocked unglazed window with two diamond mullions on the first floor of the southeast elevation, and a beam with lamb's tongues stops is visible near the southwest entrance. Additionally, stone column bases of an unknown structure have been uncovered approximately four metres north of the house.

Historical research by Dr. F.G. Emmison from the Essex Record Office, dated 6 October 1949, indicates that the site has been occupied since 1427. The rear sections of the house were once used as workshops by John Roger Arnold, a maker of chronometers and watches who lived from 1736 to 1843 and purchased the house in 1800.