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Basmead Manor Farmhouse

A Grade II* Listed Building in Staploe, Bedford

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.2372 / 52°14'13"N

Longitude: -0.3324 / 0°19'56"W

OS Eastings: 513968

OS Northings: 261195

OS Grid: TL139611

Mapcode National: GBR H2B.LSW

Mapcode Global: VHGMD.613B

Plus Code: 9C4X6MP9+V2

Entry Name: Basmead Manor Farmhouse

Listing Date: 7 May 1952

Last Amended: 18 August 1983

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1321617

English Heritage Legacy ID: 36576

ID on this website: 101321617

Location: Bedford, Bedfordshire, PE19

County: Bedford

Civil Parish: Staploe

Traditional County: Bedfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bedfordshire

Church of England Parish: Eaton Socon

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description


TL 16SW STAPLOE AND DULOE STAPLOE

1/173 Basmead Manor Farmhouse
7.5.52 (formerly listed as
Basmead Manor)

- II*

Farmhouse, formerly manor house. Late C15 to C18. Part timber framed with
colour washed plaster infill, part colour washed brick. Clay tile roof. Hall
and cross-wing, hall of 2 storeys, cross-wing of 2 storeys and attics. 3-bay
hall : on rebuilt brick plinth, has 2 C19 canted bays and one 2-light
horizontal sash to ground floor, one round-headed fixed light and 2 sashes to
first floor, all with glazing bars. Front door to W, opening onto hallway
originally possibly the screens passage. Interior : open hall divided into 2
floors in C17, retains crown post roof and solar to E with 8-light watching
window with part restored wood tracery. Cross-wing: projecting gable is 1973-
74 reconstruction. Oldest part probably mid-C16, when this block took over
hall's functions. Interior : ground floor room has carved rosettes and
mouldings to beams, one main post with imitation shaft and capital, others
with evidence of similar decoration; brackets to one beam have spandrels
carved with grotesque figures, foilage and feathers; remains of stone
fireplace with roll moulding to jamb, probably C12, reputedly imported from
Bushmead Priory C17 brick addition to rear of cross-wing has complete early
C18 panelling to first floor room. Late C18 2-storey addition within rear
angle, lean-to addition to E of this. (N.W. Alcock; "Timber framed buildings
in North Bedfordshire", Bedfordshire Archaeological Journal, Vol IV, 1969.)


Listing NGR: TL1396861195

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