Site Event/Activity record ECC4466 - Historic building assessment of barn at Langford Hall, Langham, 2018

Location

Location Langford Hall, Grove Hill, Langham
Grid reference Centred TM 0295 3200 (16m by 19m)
Map sheet TM03SW
County ESSEX
Civil Parish LANGHAM, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

Leigh Alston

Date

November 2018

Map

Description

An historic analysis at Historic England Level 2 was carried out by Leigh Alston in November 2018 of a group of redundant farm buildings in the curtilage of a grade II-listed farmhouse to inform and accompany a planning application for conversion.<1> The barn is aligned at right-angles to the farmhouse and entered from its rear yard by a central gabled porch. The five-bay structure consists largely of re-used timber on a tall brick plinth with original knee-braces to the tie-beams and nailed primary wall braces in the typical manner of the mid-19th century. The present shallow-pitched roof of softwood and corrugated iron is a 20th century replacement of the original which was probably steeply pitched for thatch. The building was designed as a traditional threshing barn with a pair of identical full-height doorways forming a central thoroughfare, but the half-hung barn doors have been removed and only their knee-braced jambs survive. Any trace of the threshing floor has also been lost beneath modern concrete. A pair of ostensibly original lean-to brick grain storage sheds flanked the porch but the southernmost was largely replaced by a new milking parlour of cement block-work in the mid-20th century. These may have been roofed in slate to match the rear extension of the farmhouse to which they were connected. A mid-20th century covered cattle yard to the west of the barn retains the outer walls of two red-brick shelter-sheds that formerly flanked the open yard shown on historic maps.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Historic Building Recording: Alston, Leigh. 2018. Barn at Langford Hall, Langham, Essex. Heritage Asset Assessment.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Langford Hall, Grove Hill, Langham (Building)

Record last edited

Apr 8 2020 8:55AM

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