Site Event/Activity record ECC3876 - Historic building recording of a barn at New Hall, Little Wigborough, 2016

Location

Location New Hall, Copt Hall Lane, Little Wigborough
Grid reference Centred TL 98155 15182 (20m by 14m)
Map sheet TL91NE
County ESSEX
Civil Parish GREAT AND LITTLE WIGBOROUGH, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

Leigh Alston

Date

August 2016

Map

Description

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.'

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Historic Building Recording: Alston, Leigh. 2016. Barn at New Hall, Little Wigborough, Essex: Historic Asset Assessment.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Barn at New Hall, Little Wigborough (Building)

Record last edited

Sep 23 2016 4:48PM

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