Description

LITTLE BERKHAMSTED ROBIN'S NEST HILL
TL 20 NE
(Southeast side)
Little Berkhamsted
7/96 No. 20 (The Old Manor)
20.10.52 (formerly listed as
The Manor Farmhouse)
- II

House. Mid to late C16, altered and extended late C17, C19 and C20.
Timber frame, brick additions, all roughcast. Tiled roofs. 3 large bays
originally hall, parlour and service. In late C17 porch and stack added
to form lobby entry between parlour and hall, bay window put on hall and
separate kitchen/brewhouse added to rear. Entrance in C17 open timber
gabled porch to left of centre, square moulded balusters on returns,
moulded tie beam. Parlour to left has 3 light flush frame casements with
diamond leaded panes. To right is 2 storey shallow canted C17 bay
window, brick base, ground floor ovolo moulded timber mullions and
transom, 16 leaded lights, first floor similar 8 light mullioned window,
tiled coping. A single light above porch. C17 gable above canted bay
window. On ridge behind entrance is C19 rebuilding of C17 stack with
clustered diagonal shafts. 2 bay broad gable ends: ground floor French
windows to left, projecting rectangular bay windows to right, first
floor 2 light diamond pane casements, all with C19 hood moulds. To rear
right a C19 stack with 3 diagonally set shafts. Attached to rear right
is a C19 or C20 1 storey flat roofed addition with an entrance on right
end, gabled open porch, 2 light casement. This forms a link to C17
kitchen/brewhouse extending to rear right, rebuilt end stack, 2, 3 and 4
light casements to rear. To rear left is a C19 gabled block. To rear
centre extends a C20 gabled block. Lean-to outshut to rear of lobby
entrance bay. Interior: hall ceiling has floral plaster ornament,
chamfered bearers. Exposed frame of large scantling, jowled posts,
cambered tie beams, braces in walling, clasped purlin roof. Some C17 or
C18 panelling. Parlour fireplace dated 1657. (RCHM 1910: G. Millington,
Little Berkhamsted, 1981: RCHM Typescript)

Listing NGR: TL2941308018

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26291837

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)