Barn Complex Including Attached Horse Wheel House And Threshing Barn, Approximately 90 Metres North Of Motts Farmhouse

This barn complex, which includes an attached horse wheel house and threshing barn, is located approximately 90 metres north of Motts Farmhouse. It dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century and is constructed from vari-colour brick with grey slate roofs. The large barn features two hipped midstreys and lean-to granaries on its south face. There is a lean-to on the north-west face that adjoins the full-height horse wheel house, which has a hipped roof, and a pyramidal roof on the attached full-height threshing barn. The main barn roof has a parapet verge at the junction with the eastern wall of the threshing barn, and a lower-level roof continues to the eastern wall of the main barn.

The threshing barn includes a window opening above the central doorway, while the horse wheel house has a two-storey range of slatted louvres, a central doorway with a loft above, and all openings have segmental heads. There is a door opening with a timber lintel to the outshot and a full-height doorway on the north-west face of the main barn. Further west, there is a sunken panel with a dentilled eaves cornice and a central window. Some walls have rounded angles to prevent stock injuries, and a similar panel is found on the west wall.

Internally, the complex features a good king post roof, and some of the main barn's tie beams are scissor braced. A doorway in the partition wall of the threshing barn leads into the internally octagonal horse gin, where part of the original driving shaft remains in the wall. The central first-floor height double beams have a central tie with a driving shaft groove. Until recent years, the original horse track was below these beams, but the floor is now concrete as the building is used for dairy farming. Originally, there was a loft floor in this room. The buildings were part of a larger complex that has since been demolished and are believed to have been inspired by the farm complex at Holkham Hall in Norfolk. This barn complex is a very rare survival of a horse wheel house in Essex.