Haslingfield Manor

Haslingfield Manor is a manor house dating from the mid-16th century, with substantial alterations in the late 17th and 18th centuries, and further changes in the 19th century. The building is timber-framed, with roughcast rendering and areas of red and grey brick. The roof is tiled and slate-covered, with a late 17th-century brick side stack featuring stone ed shafts. Originally built with an H-plan in the mid-16th century, the roof was raised and a third storey added in the late 17th century. Wings were added to the north side in the late 17th century, and most of the original mansion was demolished in the early 19th century.

The south front is faced with late 17th-century red brick, featuring original banding between the storeys. Early 19th-century windows have been inserted. The east front, also of three storeys, has raised surrounds to three blocked window openings on each storey. A late 17th-century balcony with a 19th-century iron balustrade is present on the first floor. The main entrance is now through a late 17th or early 20th-century rustic porch. Fenestration on the south front is largely late 19th-century. A late 17th-century kitchen range, also timber-framed and part red brick, adjoins the north side, alongside 19th-century grey brick additions.

Inside the surviving core of the mid-16th century house, timber framing is exposed, featuring heavy scantling and curved downward bracing. A clunch hearth with a four-centred arch in a square head, partly carved spandrels, and a scratching indicating "1555" (likely the date of the house) are present. An abutting clunch wall is also noted. The manor was built by Thomas Wendy (d.1540), physician to Henry VIII, and remodelled by Sir Thomas Wendy, K B (d.1673). Original features, including a fireplace and staircase, were moved to Bourn Hall, Bourn, Cambridgeshire, during the early 19th-century demolition. Other materials were reused in No. 39 High Street (The Maltings), No. 13 Broad Lane (Oak Cottage), and Cantelupe Farmhouse, c.1820. As documented in R.C.H.M. West Cambs., mon(2). Lysons’ Cambridgeshire, p208, and Pevsner’s Buildings of England, p403.