Description

SX 86 SW LITTLEHEMPSTON

5/49 Hampstead Manor (formerly listed as Hampstead) 9.2.61

- II*

House, formerly a farmhouse. C16 north wing with circa late C16/early Cl7 south wing. Stone rubble. Slate roof with gabled and half-hipped ends. Two storeys. Four window range. Various casements. Moulded doorframe at centre to cross- passage with moulded panelled door. Similar moulded doorframe at rear of cross-passage. Cross-wing at south end has roof with half-hipped end at front and at rear gabled with two large window openings on ground and first floors with large ovolo moulded lintels. Ground floor has three-light ovolo moulded wooden mullion window. On either side of cross-wing a stone external chimney stack with set-offs. Another rendered chimney stack at north gable end. Circa early C19 outbuilding at south end, now part of house. Interior: north wing has jointed cruck trusses. Cross-passage has plank and muntin screens with bead moulding to muntins. Heavy moulded wooden doorframe from cross-passage with baluster-shaped carved stops. Similar doorframe above on first floor. At north end open fireplace with massive wooden bressummer and oven, framed open-well staircase with chamfered handrail, square newels with moulded tops, wide unmoulded closed string, and square chamfered balusters. Cross-wing has large unchamfered ceiling beams supported on wooden corbels on braces. First floor room above has fireplace with moulded bressummer. In the roof of the cross-wing there is said to be date 1647 and arms of the Earls of Arundel.

Listing NGR: SX8042561624

External Links

• Wikidata Q17534483

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (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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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version