Hatch Farmhouse and Farm Buildings

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TQ69SW THORNDON PARK 723-1/9/310 Hatch Farmhouse and farm buildings 20/02/76 (Formerly Listed as: THORNDON PARK, West Horndon Hatch Farmhouse and farm buildings)

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Animal feeding place for Thorndon Park. 1776. Designed by Samuel Wyatt (drawings in County Record Office). Red brick, essentially English bond but much variation, slate and pantiled roofs. It comprised (1) a central fodder store of barn form, half converted in C19 to a house, (2) on 3 sides, N, S and E, a yard, around which were single-storey colonnaded feeding ranges with four 2-storey corner pavilions and three 2-storey central blocks with high arched openings in Roman triumphal arch style. Subsequent adaptation of the units, particularly in the C19 has altered various features and a few elements have now gone. (1) House/barn aligned N-S, originally rectangular with 2 pairs of waggon porches to E and W alternated with 3 upper lunette openings. N and S ends had 3 similar openings and 9 long wind-eyes below, roof hipped, slated with dentilled eaves. W front elevation, S half essentially original with central waggon porch now with waney edged boarding in gable. Apex level with principal roof eaves. A string course defines base of upper barn openings. Lean-to with pantiled roof to S of porch also C18. N half of W front - considerably altered in C19 to convert to a house and porch replaced with taller 2-storeyed projecting block imitating style of triumphal entry arches - with high semicircular head recess, 2 window range, all windows sashes with glazing bars, horns, 3x4 panes, ground floor deeper than first floor. Stack rises from principal roof pitch on S side. To S ground floor segment head triple sash window, glazing bars, horns, 1x4, 3x4, 1x4 panes, first floor sash window similar to those in re-built block. Adjacent lunette opening blocked and C19 inserted cross-wall between house and barn directly behind, also a gabled creasing line over blocked opening implies another projecting unit once added here but now removed. To N of C19 block, C18 walling remains, lunette opening has C19 3-light first floor casement window, below, ground floor contemporary 2-light casement window inserted. Farmhouse/barn rear, E elevation similar to front, similar C19 treatment. S end waggon porch has C19 segment arched head with keystone, to S, lunate opening and lean-to, to N, blocked lunette and first floor C19 sash window. Below, ground floor slated lean-to between porch and C19 rebuilding, originally timber-framed, (central post visible) but now brick, rendered with 2 3-light casement windows. C19 projecting house block (replacing earlier waggon porch) similar to front elevation except that no arched, recessed head, only corner pilasters. Stack rises from principal roof on N side. N end, high lunette opening blocked, slated lean-to below of C18 build with central doorway - C19 door with 4 bead edged flush panels. S end elevation, C18 features survive, 3 open lunettes, 9 wind-eyes below, ground floor lean-tos on E and W sides. E with hatch door, W with simple doorway and boarded door. N end elevation considerably altered in C19. Outer 2 lunettes have semicircular-headed triple window with glazing bars, 6x2 panes, centre lunette blocked. Ground floor, C19 doorway with semicircular-headed 3-light fanlight, C19 door with upper glazing, 3x2 panes and lower moulded panel. To E, large segment headed triple sash window similar to one on front elevation. To W, C19 segment headed sash window with horns. Out-shut to E has C19 sash window with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. (2) Outer ranges, originally similar to each other with central archways with pedimented and dentilled gable and open roundel in each spandrel of access arch. String course at impost level, 2 ground floor segment headed window recesses, blind in lower half, open above. End pavilions with pyramidal roofs, tall blind round headed recess and string course reflecting central archways. Segment headed opening below string course. Colonnaded feeding stalls, 7 bays, 8 columns of brick with Tuscan stone capitals and bases, pantiled roofs, window shaped blind recesses within an interior wall for mangers. E range: interior, W face, central entrance-way colonnades replaced by weatherboarded ranges, to S with 3 stable doors, to N with one stable door and three 3-light casement windows. Pavilion at S end unroofed. E range, exterior, E face. Central archway, as built, N range built forward, slate roofed, weatherboarded with lower rendering. Four 2-paned casement windows. S range built forward, pantiled, open fronted within, 4 original columns, feeding recesses. N pavilion has walling within arch disturbed, upper opening cutting string course. S pavilion mostly gone. N range: interior S face. Central block converted to domestic use, central arch blocked with secondary blocked central doorway, ground floor, original recesses now have a 2-light casement window in upper half, first floor roundels glazed, 2x2 panes. Central segment headed 3-light casement window touching arch soffit, colonnaded ranges E, 7 columns visible. 4 bays open, other blocked, one C20 boarded door, one 3-light window, W range infilled with brickwork, 6 columns visible, 3 sliding sash windows, each 6x2 panes and one 2-light casement window, 2x2 panes. 2 boarded doors. Pavilions essentially original form, one to W had doorway above string course and glazed segment headed window below. Its W outer face has an upper blocked segment headed window aperture and a ground floor window in upper half of segment headed recess. N range, exterior, N face, carriage-way blocked, ground floor central segment head sash window, 4x4 panes, to W similar window 3x4 panes, to E doorway with segment head fanlight of 3 panes, door has upper glazing, 3x3 panes and one lower panel. First floor roundels glazed, 2x2 panes, central segment headed 4x2 panes window touching arch soffit. Colonnaded ranges partly blocked with brickwork. E range has 6 visible columns, stable half door, hatch opening with door, 2 simple casements. W range, 7 columns visible, one open bay, one hatch with boarded door and one 4-light casement window with mullion and tramsom, all casements of 2x2 panes. Pavilions, E restored but essentially of original form with central doorway now reduced to hatch. W of original form. S range interior N face. Central archway converted to domestic use, entrance-way blocked with secondary central blocked doorway on each side, a 2-light casement window in upper half of original segment headed recess. First floor, one roundel blocked, other replaced by C20 2-light casement window. In between them, central 3-light casement window 6x2 panes, touching arch soffit. Colonnaded range to E infilled with weatherboard and brick. 4 stable doors. W range mainly brick infilled, one weatherboared bay, 7 columns visible, 2 stable doors and one C20 boarded door with adjacent simple window. E pavilion now down to a wall. W pavilion now missing. S range, S face. Central archway completely rebuilt in C19. Flush front with ground floor recessed panel. All windows C20. Ground floor, central segment headed window, 2-light casement with top light to E. C20 door with upper glazing (radial top) with adjacent single light side window. To W, 2-light casement window. First floor, 3 similar casement windows with top lights under segment heads - colonnades best preserved here. Each have 6 columns surviving with rear feeding recesses, one bay in each range, adjacent to house bricked in with simple boarded door. End pavilions - E in ruined state, W absent. Hatch Farm and the granary (qv) form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ6176090578

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 15 Essex,

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