Purpose Built Barn With Horse Engine Approximately 60 Metres South West Of Doggetts Farmhouse And Attached To Barn Quode Vide 6/196

This is a purpose-built barn with a horse engine, located approximately 60 meters southwest of Doggetts Farmhouse. It dates from the early to mid-19th century and is primarily constructed of gault brick, featuring a weatherboarded upper floor. The south gable includes a weatherboarded lucam, with external steps leading to a loft door beneath it. The ground floor has a small paned segmental headed window, with similar windows on the east and west sides, as well as single and double vertically boarded doors on the east face.

The horse gear is situated to the northwest and is a rare, possibly unique type of wooden and cast iron structure in Essex. It features two 18-foot (5.4 meters) horse poles that turn a cast iron vertical shaft, which drives a main wooden spur wheel with iron teeth. The machinery was developed by Wedlake and Co at an early date, and by 1849, they were marketing equipment for operating a bean mill, bruiser, turnip cutter, and chaff machine.

Inside the attic, there are five hoppers, supported by a side purlin ridge board roof and V bracing above collars held by Queen posts. The floors have herringbone strutting. On the first floor, a chaff cutter is present, along with a chute leading to the ground floor, a cake crusher, and a grindstone. The horse gear also pumped water and likely powered other machinery. Drawings by John Booker from 1963 are kept at Prittlewell Priory Museum and with the owners, A.W. Squier Limited.