Manor Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Farmhouse.

Manor Farm House

WRENN ID
worn-cobalt-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Farm House is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private residence. It dates from the late 16th century and was altered in the 17th century, with brick casing added in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame encased in buff brick and has steep tiled roofs. It is a long, low, two-storey house that faces west and is set back from the road.

A south crosswing projects only to the rear, and its roof has been altered to match the main range. There is a lean-to 17th-century framed staircase tower at the angle with the wing. At the northern end of the rear wall, there is a lower gabled extension that contains a service stair and a dairy. The west front has a regular arrangement with three windows on each floor and a door located between the first and second windows from the south. The windows are horizontally sliding casement windows, with three lights on the first floor and two ground floor windows featuring four lights. The 19th-century plank door has a heavy frame.

Inside, there is a through passage leading to the stair at the rear. The northern room is large and features chamfered and mason-mitred crossed beams with scroll stops, a tiled floor, and a large fireplace in the northern gable with seats. A 15th-century roll-moulded post has been re-used as a beam in the rear part of the south crosswing, which contains two rooms on the ground floor with internal chimneys on the south wall. The upper floor is ceiled under a wide side-purlin roof structure with exposed tie-beams and queen-struts at the northern gable, as well as a heavy middle tie-beam exposed in the southern bedroom. The timber frame is also exposed on both floors in the rear wall, featuring jowled posts.

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