Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 824: summary

An archaeological evaluation by trial-trenching on land at Lady Knights Barn & Yard, Pentlow Lane, Pentlow, Essex: March 2015
by Adam Wightman, Chris Lister (with contributions from -)

Date report completed: April 2015
Location: Lady Knights Barn & Yard, Pentlow Lane, Pentlow, Essex
Map reference(s): NGR: TL 81804 46116 (c)
File size: 5,972 kb
Project type: Archaeological evaluation by trial-trenching
Significance of the results: *
Keywords: medieval/post-medieval, barn

Summary. In March 2015 the Colchester Archaeological Trust undertook an evaluation on the site of a 15th-century barn at Lady Knights Barn and Yard, part of the historic farm complex at Pentlow Hall Farm, Pentlow, Essex. The historic barn, which burned to the ground in the 1990s, survived only as the partial remains of the brick plinths on which the timber-framed barn was raised up in the 16th/17th century. An evaluation trench excavated in advance of the construction of a new dwelling identified a foundation for a later cross-wall associated with the historic barn, as well as the surviving brick plinth of the medieval barn.