Tyrell'S Hall

SHEPRETH FOWLMERE ROAD TL 39.47 (South west side) 21/315 Tyrell's Hall (No. lo) 22.11.67 GV II

Manor house. Mainly C18 but external appearance is now early C19 following an extensive remodelling by Thomas Nash of Cockett and Nash, architects of Royston, Herts. in 1825. North east end is probably C16. Part timber framed and part gault brick with the principal entrance front now on the north side, stuccoed. Hipped, early C19, slate roof with internal and end stacks of similar period. Two storeys. Symmetrical facade of four flush frame, twelve pane hung sashes on either side of taller central window of fifteen panes. Below is a central doorway with open modillion pediment on engaged Tuscan columns. Panelled door with fanlight and radial glazing bars. A lower service wing adjoins with two storey canted bays flanking the doorway in the end wall. Stuccoed and roughcast walls with slate roof. The garden front is of gault brick and has a range of five recessed hung sashes, shuttered, and a central glazed doorway flanked by full length hung sashes. The site is partly moated. The early C19 alterations to the house, the lodge, bridge, Gothick summer house and garden shelter (q.v.) reflect the taste of the Woodham family at the time. A bath house of similar period is now ruinous (1985). Plans and elevations for the proposed alterations to the house by Cockett and Nash are deposited in Cambridge Record Office. The original scheme shows that the main front was on the south side. The drawings also show that the bays at the east end of the service/office range were an alteration to the proposed scheme. Tyrell's manor was acquired by William Woodham in 1759. The Nash-Woodham family also owned Docwra's Manor, Shepreth (q.v.).

V.C.H. Cambs. Vol. 5 p.256 R.C.H.M. Record Card (1949) C.R.O.: 296/B.53

Listing NGR: TL3955047618