Ongar Park Hall Farm Buildings
ONGAR PARK HALL FARM BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337559
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ongar Park Hall Farm Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- ONGAR PARK HALL FARM BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337559
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ongar Park Hall Farm Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ONGAR PARK HALL FARM BUILDINGS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ONGAR PARK HALL FARM BUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bobbingworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 51345 03898
Details
The following buildings shall be added to the list:-
TL 50 SW STANFORD RIVERS - (partly in Bobbingworth Parish)
4/10000 Ongar Park Hall Farm buildings
GV II
Planned farmstead buildings. Circa 1860-80; remodelled circa 1883 by Primrose McConnell. Red brick, plain and pantile roofs. Plan: Planned arable farmstead with a barn and cowhouse at centre, cattle shelter on east side, cowhouses on south side, a shed and implement shed on west side and a range of stables on the north side, with the medieval farmhouse Ongar Park Hall (qv) in the NE corner. In 1883 Primrose McConnell remodelled the farmstead as a dairy farm, a dairy was built to the S of the barn and the barn and old cowhouse were rebuilt after a fire in 1898. At the centre the cowhouse and barn has a double-span roof with lean-tos on either side, the barn with large round-arch cartways in either end (S end blocked); weatherboarded timber frame partition between barn and cowhouse, and inserted floor in cowhouse; incorporated into south end is the dairy built by McConnell and a cowhouse range at right angles at the south end. On east side a long 12-bay open-fronted cattle shelter. On north side the stable range has cross wing on west end and taller roof range on east end with garage doors inserted. On north of west side (NW corner) a 3-bay open-fronted implement shed and attached store, to south of which is a detached aisled shed with a hipped roof. Note: Primrose McConnell (1856-1931) the Scottish farmer and influential agriculturalist, migrated with his father to Essex to become tenants at Ongar Park Farm. Like other Scottish dairy farmers moving to East Anglia during the agricultural depression of the 1880s he remodelled what was originally an arable farm to a dairy farm during his tenancy at Ongar Park Farm from 1883 to 1905. In his articles in the Scottish agricultural press he influenced other Scottish farmers to migrate to East Anglia. It was here at Ongar Park Farm that he wrote his influential 'Agricultural Notebook', first published in 1883 and which is a standard work still in print; the 18th edition was published in 1992.
Listing NGR: TL5134503898
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118077
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
McConnell, P, Agricultural Notebook, (1883)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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