Mitchell Farm Barn

MALDON

TL80NW LANGFORD ROAD, Heybridge 574-1/1/263 (North side) 22/08/83 Mitchell Farm Barn (Formerly Listed as: LANGFORD ROAD, Heybridge Mitchell Farm Cottages Barn)

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Barn, now house. Mid-late C16 with early C19 and C20 additions. Timber-framed and black-tarred weatherboarding with Norfolk-reed thatched roof. Lean-to extension on south-west corner with old pantile roof, and single-storey, T-plan, C20 rendered range with pantile roof to north; C20 tiled hipped open porch on timber posts on south-east corner and small ridgeline stack. Gabled thatched midstrey in centre of west side of barn with C20 glazed doors in place of original barn doors. Barn now has small windows in boarding with black painted frames, and new range has C20 brown-stained casements and some red-brick trim at eaves and plinth. INTERIOR: very good quality C16 frame, substantially complete, of 3 bays with jowled posts and with integral mid strey. Long wall braces of serpentine profile between posts and roof plates at corners. Cambered tie beams, formerly with arch braces but now with C18 hanging knees. Roof has side purlins and serpentine wind braces. Midstrey has door posts either side with moulded jowl-like profiles.

Listing NGR: TL8454408658