Description

TL 30 NW BAYFORD BAYFORD LANE
(West side)

3/15 Bayford Hall
-

- II

Farmhouse. Early C18, marked as Old Farm on estate map of 1758 (HRO),
altered early C19, and in later C19 for second son of Clinton-Baker
Lords of the Manor. Red brick and slate roofs with parapets. Red tiles
to open timber porch. 2-storeys, attics and cellar, double-pile
rectangular house facing S with 1½-storeys LH extension. Front has twin
canted bay windows, porch to entrance in middle, segmental arches to
recessed sash windows on 1st floor with 2/2 large panes, 3 box dormers
on the roofslope, 6-panels moulded door with fanlight, and end-chimneys
to the 2 parallel pitched roofs. This M-roof shows on RH end which has a
central entrance giving onto stairs and serving the kitchen in rear RH
corner of house plan, with old dresser built in. W wall of old house has
an early C18 slightly recessed single-light transomed window now exposed
in the extension, closed string stair with turned balusters and heavy
square newels serving the attic, ovolo-panelled room with contemporary
C18 fireplace on 1st floor in SE room, and similar panelling, cupboards
and doors with IL hinges in other 1st floor rooms. Ground floor interior
elaborately remodelled in later C19. Fire insurance plaque in house with
clasped hands and number 79373.

Listing NGR: TL3051309061

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26631226

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)