Site Event/Activity record ECC4466 - Historic building assessment of barn at Langford Hall, Langham, 2018
Location
Location | Langford Hall, Grove Hill, Langham |
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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
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> SCC74217 Historic Building Recording: Alston, Leigh. 2018. Barn at Langford Hall, Langham, Essex. Heritage Asset Assessment.
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
- MCC4270 Langford Hall, Grove Hill, Langham (Building)
Record last edited
Apr 8 2020 8:55AM