Leigh Alston undertook an archaeological record and analysis at English Heritage (2006) Level 2 of a redundant barn in the curtilage of a grade II-listed former farmhouse (MCC4191), to inform and accompany a planning application for conversion (Colchester Borough Council no. 161284). The barn is timber-framed and weatherboarded, and adjoins a walled cattle yard to the south of the house.<1> Alston states: 'The southern barn is an unusual structure which was not shown on the tithe map but incorporates what appears to be an 18th century neat-house (cattle-shed). This shed may have been moved from the opposite corner of the cattle yard in circa 1840 and converted into a narrow threshing barn by adding a much taller porch and cutting new doors into the opposite wall. An additional bay was later added to its western gable along with a lean-to extension to the east. Pre-Victorian cattle sheds are notoriously rare, as most were rebuilt in the mid-19th century to accommodate the intensive system of mixed animal husbandry known today as Victorian High Farming. In consequence the structure remains of historic interest despite its re-use as a barn and the replacement or loss of most of its wall studs and rafters.'