Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 2014: summary

Historic building recording at Gay Bowers Farm, Bakers Lane, West Hanningfield, Essex, CM2 8LD:November 2023
by Xander Smith (with contributions from Sarah Veasey)

Date report completed: December 2023
Location: Gay Bowers Farm, Bakers Lane, West Hanningfield, Essex, CM2 8LD
Map reference(s): TL 71518 01623
File size: 97,249kb kb
Project type: Historic building recording
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Summary. A programme of historic building recording was carried out by Colchester Archaeological Trust at Gay Bowers Farm, Bakers Lane, West Hanningfield, Essex in November 2023. The recording detailed a small complex of three buildings, the oldest of which was a three-bay haybarn which is probably late 18th – early 19th century, a building currently used as a stable block constructed in the early 19th century and a modern lean-to. Structurally the barn has remained relatively unchanged. In contrast to this, the stable block, originally constructed between 1777 and 1844 as a shelter shed, shows evidence of being reworked, and at least partially rebuilt, over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries.