Tree ring dated buildings © VAG 2021 INDEX OF TREE-RING DATED BUILDINGS IN ENGLAND COUNTY LIST approximately in chronological order, revised to VA51 (2020). © Vernacular Architecture Group 2021 These files may be copied for personal use, but should not be published or further distributed without written permission from the Vernacular Architecture Group. Always access these tables via the VAG website. Unauthorised copies released without prior consent on search engines may be out of date and unreliable. Since 2016 a very small number of construction date ranges from historical sources have been added. These entries are entirely in italics. Before using the index you are recommended to read or print the introduction and guidance, which includes a key to the abbreviations used on the tables ESSEX County – Felling date Placename Address VA ref HE ref Description / keywords NGR Historic range Other refs and later Ess 931 -1121 Belchamp St Paul Church Street (1) C14 date for earth-fast arcade post (in aisled barn rebuilt c.1200). TL 797434 (Carbon14) Ess 1034 + Hadstock St Botolph’s Church 35.98 Oxf (2) North door: probably c.1050 -75. TL 559448 Ess 1063 + Greenstead St Andrew’s Church 28.142 Sh (3) Stave church. Contiguous staves on ground-sill. [Orig. with tiebeam roof?] TL 540030 Ess 1156 + Buttsbury Church of St Mary 41.103 Oxf (4) Nave north door. TQ 663986 Ess 1167 -1185 Fyfield Fyfield Hall 28.135 MB (5) Aisled hall: earth-fast posts. Upstands. Curved arcade braces with planked TQ 572069 spandrels. Pegged mortice, for aisle brace or for an oriel window. Tiebeams, passing braces. Coupled rafters with collars, rafter braces. Also see 1391-1416. Ess 1205 -1230 Cressing Temple Barley Barn 24.50 MoL (6) Aisled - ‘several important phases are poorly dated’. These dates for main posts, TL 799188 tiebeams, braces. Also see VA 21.45 (1220-1240) and VA 16.41 (1220 +), and 1641. Ess 1220 -25 Harlow Harlowbury Manor 28.141 Sh (7) Aisled hall and (originally) in-line end bays. Arcade posts, arcade braces, upstand. TL 478122 House On central truss, passing braces across aisles, arcade post and tiebeam, and up to collar. Secret notched lap joint. Coupled rafters with tenoned collars, and with soulaces, some notch-lapped but others tenoned braces from aisle to rafters in central truss. Open notched lap joints, secret notched lap joints. Ess 1238 -62 Coggeshall Grange Farm Barn 36.81 Sh (8) Aisled barn. 7 or more bays. Passing braces, notched lap joints, unjowled arcade TL 848221 posts. Most roof timbers are later replacements. Originally dated 1237-69 in VA28.141. Ess 1240 -75 Belchamp St Paul The Barn, St Paul’s 24.50 LOS (9) Aisled barn - fragments from, with notched lap-joints re-used in a later bldg. TL 797434 Hall Ess 1265 -72 Tollesbury Tollesbury Hall, 46.104 Oxf Aisled hall. Unjowled posts, reversed assembly at wall plates. Octagonal arcade post TL 956103 Church Street (10) with moulded capital. Parallel braces, passing braces, dragon ties. Secret notched lap joints. Ess 1257 -1280 Cressing Temple Wheat Barn 24.51 LOS Main posts, aisle posts TL 799188 Ess 1257 -90 Cressing Temple Wheat Barn 21.45 MoL (11) Aisle posts, aisle ties, up-braces. Arcade posts, upstands, straight braces up to TL 799188 arcade plates and to tiebeams, secondary rafters, passing braces. Upper roof includes soulaces, secondary rafters, ashlar pieces on collars which trap longitudinal bracing. Ess 1280 + Cressing Temple Wheat Barn 16.41 Fl Also see 1269. TL 799188 Ess 1280 + High Easter Ramseys 34.102 (12) Aisled: hall: fragmentary survival. TL 627162 Ess 1285 -93 St Osyth Bailiff’s Cottage, Burn 38.98 MB Part of St Osyth’s Priory. 22 scissor-braced coupled rafters. Collars are tenoned into TM 121157 Road rafters but braces have notched lap joints at lower ends and bare-faced dovetails at upper-. See 1230-1269 (Gloucs) for parallel? - Blackfriar’s Priory. Ess 1304 -5 Clavering The Bury 28.141 Sh Aisled hall. Wall-plate with notched lap-joints (late e.g.?) TL 472318 Tree ring dated buildings © VAG 2021 Ess 1287 -1329 Wimbish (near) Tiptofts 30.118 Sh Also 1282-1327. Date ranges overlap so the aisled timber-framed hall with TL 570373 AML 6/99. hammerbeam roof of 1282-37 may be contemporary with wing of 1287 -1329. Ess 1301 -37 Wakes Colne Crepping Hall, 34.102 Sh (13) Manorial. Moated. Timber-framed. Two-bay hall and cross-passage. Base cruck (the TL 909284 Crepping Hall Rd blades have no arcade braces). Crown post roof. Spere truss has octagonal posts with moulded capitals. Ess 1328 /29 Belchamp St Paul Turners 28.142 Sh (14) Once an aisled hall. Notched lap joints, splayed scarf joints. It has been argued that TL 799431 the arch-braced tiebeams are not primary. Ess 1341 Birdbrook Baythorne Hall 42.105 Oxf Manorial. Timber-framed. Wide-spaced studs, ‘multiple tension bracing’. Raised aisle TL 719426 2-bay open hall (Hewett drew this as aisled hall), evidence of a louvre. Crenelated beam. Contemporary jettied wings. Hall & E wing roofs have crown posts. Earliest dated raised aisle hall? W wing replacement roof not dated. Ess 1321 -63 Southend Southchurch Hall 28.142 Sh (15) 2-bay open hall. Cusped arch-braces to tiebeam carrying crown post with 4-way TQ 895855 bracing. ‘...a well-preserved moated hall house containing a rather odd cruck element in the south-east corner ...’ [eaves blades]. Ess 1381 -1407 Great Dunmow 15 High Street 30.87 MB S range of fire-damaged former PH. Box-framed, jettied, crown post. (The date TL 628219 AML 21/99 range given in VA30 is incorrect). Ess 1353 /54 Bocking 67 -69 Bradford Street 49.137 MB DM Fully floored 3-bay building, jettied to front. Jowled posts, short braces up to TL 760239 tiebeams. Undivided 1st-floor hall having moulded bases and capitals on crown posts which clasp the collar purlins; 4-way braces. In gable walls collars are trenched externally across king struts. Ess 1344 -73 Fyfield Church of St Nicholas 37.98 MB North aisle roof and nave tiebeam. Also see 1487 -1519 & 1563 -86. TL 572067 CfA 64/2005 Ess 1352 -67 Tollesbury Bourchier’s Hall, Back 48.111 Oxf Central hall truss has steeply arch-braced, quadrant-moulded cambered tiebeam, TL 944116 (OxCal) Road octagonal crown post with 4-way rising straight braces. Ess 1349 -85? Salcott Horn Farm Barn 32.88 Sh Small 3-bay barn. Passing braces, arched bracing, reversed assembly at the aisles, TL 947136 soffit jowls on the aisle ties, edge-halved and bridled scarf joints. Ess 1368 Wakes Colne Normans / Normandy 34.102 IT (16) Moated. Aisled. Box-framed. Hall with cross-passage and upper end wing. Wing has TL 886303 Hall, Lane Road end jetty and half-hip with gablet. Large panel framing with curved and straight down- braces. Hall has flying tiebeam and a crown post roof. Ess 1353 -86 Coggeshall ‘Spooners’, 30 Church 43.95 IT (17) In-line 4-bay house with 2-bay hall. Posts with jowled heads, tall rectangular wall TL 851226 St panels, serpentine & curved down-braces. Front doorway with 2-centred arch, carved spandrels, internal doorway with ogee head. Arch-braced tiebeam, crown post with curved braces up to collar purlin & down to tiebeam. For rear extension see 1608/9. Ess 1353 -89 Colchester St Martin’s Church 30.117 Sh Chancel roof: no details. Nave tiebeam dated to 1357-62. Decorated panel from TL 996254 chancel ceiling after 1348. Ess 1375 Bocking White Hart Hotel 34.101 IT (18) Aisled hall range, and possibly a contemporary wing with crown post, but survival is TL 757232 fragmentary. Curved arcade braces. Ess 1370 -80 Colchester Rebow House, 58 -62 48.110 Oxf Medieval cellar with flat-section joists, thick braces. TL 994250 (OxCal) Head Street Ess 1361 -93 Coggeshall 18 East St 43.96 IT (19) Originally part of an H-plan house with Nos. 14 & 16. Surviving bay of a parlour wing. TL850225 Roof rebuilt. (For rebuilt hall see 16 East St, 1636: for low end wing see 14 East St, 1435). Ess 1365 -91 Navestock St Thomas the 30.118 Sh Also 1338 -1382. Bell tower and inner frame here shown to be probably TQ 540984 Apostle contemporary. Suggested that Essex framed towers are later than those of N Herefs, and probably a separate tradition. Also see 1511 -56 and 1458 after. Ess 1382 + Woodham Walter St Michael’s Church 28.142 Sh Bellframe. TL 809067 AML 12/96 Ess 1386/7 Coggeshall 10 East St 43.95 IT (20) Low end wing, Unjowled storey posts. Plain crown post with down-braces to tiebeam. TL 850225 (For rebuilt hall see 1552-88). Tree ring dated buildings © VAG 2021 Ess 1386 -96 Newport The Old Vicarage, 45.117 Oxf F.d.r. is for timbers in jettied N wing. Cambered tiebeam, crown-post roof. (For S TL 521338 High Street wing see 1492-1524). Ess 1383 -99 West Hanningfield Church of St Mary and 48.82 MB Timber-framed tower. Corner posts dated but bell-frame failed to date. TQ 735998 OxCal) St Edward RRS 24-2016 Ess 1394 /95 Colchester The George Hotel, 48.110 Oxf First-floor hall. Crown-post (from 1st roof?). (Roof rebuilt). TL 997252 1396 High Street Ess 1381 -1407 Great Dunmow 15 High Street 30.87 MB S range of fire-damaged former PH. Box-framed, jettied, crown post. (The date TL 628219 AML 21/99 range given in VA30 is incorrect). Ess 1397 Coggeshall 19 East St 43.96 IT (21) Outbuilding, possible kitchen, possibly floored at one end.