St Osyths Priory Outbuilding adjacent NW of brewhouse now a dairy (EHER 25671)

16th century or earlier stone and red brick outbuilding.

Prior to the repair, extension and conversion to residential use a historic building survey was carried out on the barn and brewhouse. The construction of the barn is indicative of the later 16th century and can be attributed to the works carried out by Lord Darcy. Its size suggest it was used for collecting tithes and much of the building survives intact. The brewhouse is of three main phases of which the earliest phase dates to the later 16th century. The upper part was rebuilt in the late 17th or 18th century in brick and a lean-to was added in the 19th century. <1> <2>