Bayfordbury Park Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1988. Manor house, farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Bayfordbury Park Farmhouse

WRENN ID
former-flint-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
20 April 1988
Type
Manor house, farmhouse
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bayfordbury Park Farmhouse is a manor house that has been converted into a farmhouse. It dates back to the 16th century but was relegated to farmhouse status around 1762 when Bayfordbury was built to the south. The building underwent alterations in the late 19th century, featuring a brick front and an east wing. The timber frame front is cased in red brick laid in Flemish bond, which is now painted, while the northwest wing is roughcast. The farmhouse has steep old red tile roofs with bellcast eaves and wide painted soffits.

It is two storeys tall with a cellar and follows a three-cell internal-chimney plan, facing south with the chimney located a third of the way from the west end. There is a rear wing at the northwest, and a former east gable chimney is now enclosed in a 1½-storey late 19th-century crosswing. The south front features six first-floor windows: five are mullioned three-light stucco windows, and there is a two-light window in the crosswing. A gabled porch with a chamfered four-centred arched entrance leads to a three-quarter glazed door. There are canted bay windows on either side of the porch and small cast-iron framed windows scattered across the front.

The northwest rear wing has a north gable chimney and an exposed jowled corner post. Inside the older part of the farmhouse, the first floor has a sloping floor and wide floorboards, with two-panel doors featuring H-hinges. The ground floor includes ceiling cornices and plank doors with old iron strap hinges. A drawing of the house from the edge of an estate map dated 1758 shows the close-studding exposed on the first floor.

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