Historic building recording at Highfields Farm, Highfields Lane, Kelvedon, Essex – July 2013

A programme of building recording was carried out by the Colchester
Archaeological Trust on a barn at Highfields Farm, Highfields Lane, Kelvedon, Essex in July 2013. The work was commissioned by the owners, Mr and Mrs Bunting. The barn is dated to 1837, although it comprises many timbers from an earlier structure on the site, and is a traditional Essex threshing barn of twelve
bays with two midstreys. It is located to the east of Highfields Farmhouse; a Grade II listed building dating to the early 18th century. The barn was constructed by William Docwra, a member of the prominent Kelvedon Quaker family who had significant farming and milling interests in Kelvedon throughout the 19th century.