Leigh Alston undertook a site visit in April 2017, and produced a report, to supplement an assessment made by David Stenning, to inform an application for Listing (Historic England case no. 1441357). Battleswick Farm occupies the site of the medieval manor of ‘Battleshall alias Battleswick’ in East Donyland, which bears the name of its 13th century holder Richard Battle of Wivenhoe. For much of its existence the manor appears to have operated either as a grange or a tenanted farm belonging to the larger estate based at Wivenhoe Hall which it overlooks on the opposite bank of the River Colne. Alston describes the building as a 'weatherboarded and largely timber-framed farmhouse is a building of considerable historic interest that evolved in a highly abnormal manner. It consists of five principal structures, all of which were shown on the tithe map of 1839: a small late-17th century central hall of 1.5 storeys is flanked on the east by a much larger parlour of two storeys that dates from the early-16th century and on the west by a single storeyed kitchen of the late-16th or early-17th century. Single-storeyed brick service wings were added to the front and rear of the kitchen in the 18th or early-19th century.' The threshing barn to the north-east of the house is a mid-19th century example of standard form.<1>