Bouchier’s Barn which originally stood on Bouchier’s Farm on the Mark’s Hall estate, is now the restaurant and Visitor Centre for the Marks Hall Gardens & Arboretum.

Built in the fifteenth century. it is a typical Essex, timber-framed, aisled barn. It has three bays. The midstrey porch was added in the eighteenth century. The roof has crown-posts supporting a central purlin which supports the collar beams tying the common rafters together.

The outside is clad with traditional Essex clapboard. The roof is tiled with clay tiles.

Bouchier’s Barn, Marks Hall, Essex