Basmead Manor Farmhouse
BASMEAD MANOR FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1321617
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Basmead Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BASMEAD MANOR FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1321617
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Basmead Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BASMEAD MANOR FARMHOUSE
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:
- BASMEAD MANOR FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Staploe
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 13968 61195
Details
TL 16SW STAPLOE AND DULOE STAPLOE
1/173 Basmead Manor Farmhouse 7.5.52 (formerly listed as Basmead Manor)
- II*
Farmhouse, formerly manor house. Late C15 to C18. Part timber framed with colour washed plaster infill, part colour washed brick. Clay tile roof. Hall and cross-wing, hall of 2 storeys, cross-wing of 2 storeys and attics. 3-bay hall : on rebuilt brick plinth, has 2 C19 canted bays and one 2-light horizontal sash to ground floor, one round-headed fixed light and 2 sashes to first floor, all with glazing bars. Front door to W, opening onto hallway originally possibly the screens passage. Interior : open hall divided into 2 floors in C17, retains crown post roof and solar to E with 8-light watching window with part restored wood tracery. Cross-wing: projecting gable is 1973- 74 reconstruction. Oldest part probably mid-C16, when this block took over hall's functions. Interior : ground floor room has carved rosettes and mouldings to beams, one main post with imitation shaft and capital, others with evidence of similar decoration; brackets to one beam have spandrels carved with grotesque figures, foilage and feathers; remains of stone fireplace with roll moulding to jamb, probably C12, reputedly imported from Bushmead Priory C17 brick addition to rear of cross-wing has complete early C18 panelling to first floor room. Late C18 2-storey addition within rear angle, lean-to addition to E of this. (N.W. Alcock; "Timber framed buildings in North Bedfordshire", Bedfordshire Archaeological Journal, Vol IV, 1969.)
Listing NGR: TL1396861195
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36576
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Journal of The British Archaeological Association in Journal of The British Archaeological Association, Vol. 4, (1970)
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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