Ongar Park Hall Farm Buildings

The following buildings shall be added to the list:-

TL 50 SW STANFORD RIVERS - (partly in Bobbingworth Parish)

4/10000 Ongar Park Hall Farm buildings

GV II

Planned farmstead buildings. Circa 1860-80; remodelled circa 1883 by Primrose McConnell. Red brick, plain and pantile roofs. Plan: Planned arable farmstead with a barn and cowhouse at centre, cattle shelter on east side, cowhouses on south side, a shed and implement shed on west side and a range of stables on the north side, with the medieval farmhouse Ongar Park Hall (qv) in the NE corner. In 1883 Primrose McConnell remodelled the farmstead as a dairy farm, a dairy was built to the S of the barn and the barn and old cowhouse were rebuilt after a fire in 1898. At the centre the cowhouse and barn has a double-span roof with lean-tos on either side, the barn with large round-arch cartways in either end (S end blocked); weatherboarded timber frame partition between barn and cowhouse, and inserted floor in cowhouse; incorporated into south end is the dairy built by McConnell and a cowhouse range at right angles at the south end. On east side a long 12-bay open-fronted cattle shelter. On north side the stable range has cross wing on west end and taller roof range on east end with garage doors inserted. On north of west side (NW corner) a 3-bay open-fronted implement shed and attached store, to south of which is a detached aisled shed with a hipped roof. Note: Primrose McConnell (1856-1931) the Scottish farmer and influential agriculturalist, migrated with his father to Essex to become tenants at Ongar Park Farm. Like other Scottish dairy farmers moving to East Anglia during the agricultural depression of the 1880s he remodelled what was originally an arable farm to a dairy farm during his tenancy at Ongar Park Farm from 1883 to 1905. In his articles in the Scottish agricultural press he influenced other Scottish farmers to migrate to East Anglia. It was here at Ongar Park Farm that he wrote his influential 'Agricultural Notebook', first published in 1883 and which is a standard work still in print; the 18th edition was published in 1992.

Listing NGR: TL5134503898