Tan House

TL 3243 BASSINGBOURN-CUM-KNEESWORTH SOUTH END (East Side) 20/72 No. 15 22.11.67 (Tan House)

II

House. Late C17 with C18 and C19 alterations. Red brick with burnt headers, timber-frame plastered and exposed. Red plain tiled roof. Two storeys with attic and lower ranges to rear forming an L-plan. West elevation: Wooden modillioned eaves cornice, exposed timber-frame at first floor. Doorway to left of centre with fluted pilasters and Doric entablature, five-panelled door and rectangular fanlight. One C19 hung sash canted bay window to left hand and one sixteen-paned flush-framed hung sash window to right hand; three first floor twelve-paned hung sash; windows. Three gabled casement dormer windows. South gable wall red brick with plinth, bands at first floor and eaves level; parapet gable with panelled brick chimney with moulded brick at its junction (qv Manor Farmhouse, North End, Bassingbourn-cum-Kneesworth). Interior: Moulded inter-secting ceiling beams to kitchen, and cased ceiling beams, C17 panelling reset, late C17 bolection moulded panelling in south room and painted panel over the chimney piece, a copy of C.D. Agar's portrait of Thomas Wentworth 3rd Earl of Strafford (RCHM). Original staircase to attics.

RCHM Report 1950 VCH Vol VIII p.15

Listing NGR: TL3319743823