Manor Farmhouse
MANOR FARMHOUSE, HIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1114166
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, HIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1114166
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, HIGH ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, HIGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cotton End
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 08474 45585
Details
TL 04NE EASTCOTTS HIGH ROAD, COTTON END
3/48 Manor Farmhouse
GV II*
House. Late C16. Red brick with stone dressings. Old clay tile roof. Originally H-plan, S cross-wing since destroyed. 2 storeys and attics. Stone banding at first floor level and at eaves level of cross-wing. Coved cornice to main block. Cross-wing: 2 2-light mullion and transom windows to ground and first floor, 2-light mullioned window to attic, and stone coping and finial. Main block: gabled central porch, with stone coping and finial. 2 3-light mullion and transom windows to ground and first floors. Similar fenestration to rear. Substantial external chimney stacks to N and rear elevations, that to N with 4 octagonal shafts, that to rear with 3 octagonal shafts, all shafts with upper part replaced by octagonal pots. Single storey outhouse addition to rear, in red brick and clay tile. Interior: main block first floor was originally one room and has elaborate plaster ceiling (cut by some C20; partitioning). Probably early C17. 5 quatrefoil panels along middle of ceiling, central one showing cost of arms possibly belonging to Thomas Colby of London, who purchased the manor in 1566 (VCH 3, p.236) or his descendants. Other main panels show scriptural subjects, including The Fall, whilst borderng panels contain variety of devices including portraits, foliage, animals, birds and grotesques. Cornice includes frieze of putti and grapevine.
Listing NGR: TL0847445585
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36694
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Bedford, (1912), 236
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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