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Old Manor Farm House

A Grade II Listed Building in Barley, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0207 / 52°1'14"N

Longitude: 0.0507 / 0°3'2"E

OS Eastings: 540812

OS Northings: 237792

OS Grid: TL408377

Mapcode National: GBR L9J.7N6

Mapcode Global: VHHL0.TGPS

Plus Code: 9F4223C2+77

Entry Name: Old Manor Farm House

Listing Date: 27 May 1968

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1102546

English Heritage Legacy ID: 162569

ID on this website: 101102546

Location: Shaftenhoe End, North Hertfordshire, SG8

County: Hertfordshire

District: North Hertfordshire

Civil Parish: Barley

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: Barley

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description


BARLEY SHAFTENHOE END
TL 43 NW (South side)
4/112
Old Manor Farm House
27.5.68

GV II


House. 1624, date on stair wing. Altered C18 and C19. Timber frame on
brick base. Rendered. Steeply pitched tiled roofs, hipped on main block.
An 'F' on plan. Large 2 cell lobby entry with kitchen and stair wings to
rear. 2 storeys and attic. Left or 'hall' bay is larger than right or
'parlour' bay. Plinth. Entrance to right of centre, recessed plank door
with a 3 pane rectangular fanlight and an C18 semi-circular hood on
carved brackets. 6 light C19 mullion and transom flush frame small pane
casements. Large cross axial ridge stack to right of centre, red brick
with an oversailing cap. Blank right end wall. Left end has 10 light
mullion and transom casements and a 2 light hipped dormer. 1 bay kitchen
wing to rear left, return has an entrance, recessed plank door with a
semi-circular hood on carved brackets as to front, 4 light small pane
flush frame casements, lower ridge. Rear gable end exposed plates,
original external red brick stack, tapering with crowsteps to right to
conjoined diagonal shafts with a moulded base, oversailing cap, built
out to left side. To rear centre is gabled stair wing with an upper
leaded pane 4 light window above which is a carved timber inscribed:
'W.L. 1624/So God May Still Me Blesse/I Care The Lesse/Let Enuy Say Her
Worst/AND AFTER BURST'. Above a moulded bressumer to projecting gable
which rests on 2 trumpeting satyr carved brackets. To right of stair
wing a later glazed outshut, to left a ground floor 6 light casement.
Interior: 'hall' has large fireplace with a stop chamfered lintel,
mantelpiece with carved brackets and scrollwork, gadrooned cornice,
flanking C17 cupboards. Axial and cross axial ovolo moulded bearers.
Newel staircase. Panelled fitted corner cupboard in 'parlour'. Ogee stop
chamfered bearer in kitchen wing. Formerly known as the Big House or
Freeman's and said to be the manor house of Burnels.(RCHM 1910:VCH 1914).


Listing NGR: TL4081237792

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