The Manor Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House. 9 related planning applications.
The Manor Farm House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor Farm House is a house dating from the late 16th century, with extensions added in the 17th and mid-19th centuries. The original core is timber-framed and rendered, while a front block built in the 19th century is constructed of red brick with flared headers. The roofs are tiled. The house has a three-bay 16th-century range to the rear left, with a right-angled addition to the rear right, forming an "L" shape. The inner angle of the āLā has been filled, and a four-window front block was added in the 19th century. It is two storeys high.
The 19th-century front block features a central entrance with a half-glazed door incorporating margin lights, set within a segmental head, and has an open gabled porch with chamfered timbers. Single-glazing bar sashes are recessed with gauged brick segmental heads. First-floor windows break the eaves to the left, each with a bargeboarded gablet. Two bays to the right form a projecting gabled crosswing with bargeboards. A cross axial ridge stack is positioned to the right of the centre. The right gable end has a ground-floor window and bargeboards, while the left gable end features a two-storey canted bay window with matching sashes. A lower, original range extends to the rear left, featuring ground-floor lean-to outshuts. Other windows include C19 flush moulded frame glazing bar sashes and French windows. An early stack with a rebuilt shaft is located at the junction with the 19th-century front block. The rear gable end of the original range displays a brick plinth, a ground-floor two-light casement, a first-floor flush-moulded frame glazing bar sash, and an attic hatch opening.
To the left of the rear is a 17th-century range with a ground-floor plank door, a 20th-century casement, and a first-floor 20-pane glazing bar sash. One return from the front is three bays, each with its own gabled roof. The rightmost bay is the earliest and has a steeper pitch, a ground-floor six-raised-panel architraved door, a later lean-to outshut, and an external stack. A taller 19th-century block to the left has a large six-light mullion and transom window on the ground floor and a two-light casement on the first floor. A smaller, lower block adjoining the brick front range has an entrance with a patterned glazed door with margin lights and a hood, as well as a first-floor two-light casement. All these gables have moulded bargeboards. Inside, there are ground-floor chamfered binding beams of large scantling and early panelled cupboards flanking the fireplace. The house was formerly known as Hoare's Manor.
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