Description

MAREFIELD

SK 70 NW MAIN STREET (South Side)

1/74 Manor House Farmhouse

GV II

House. Early C17. Coursed ironstone rubble, with Welsh slate roof. Two
storeys and attic, three unit plan with added C19 brick outshut on street
facade and original outshot staircase projection to rear. Oriented away from
street, the rear elevation contains one blocked door to right and a 3-light
casement with flat timber lintel on each floor. Eastern gable wall has tier
of windows, 4-light caveto moulded stone mullions to ground and first floors
with flat hoodmoulds, and a 2-light wood casement in attic. Rear elevation
has doorway to right with C19 brick arched head and C19 window to its left
with another later doorway beyond. Beyond that is the staircase projection
with a 3-light ovolo moulded stone mullioned window. Stone base to axial
stack and brick stacks on gables. Inside chamfered beams and at least part
of the original staircase surviving; simple newels with ball finials, and
a moulded rail. The turned balusters may be later insertions.

Listing NGR: SK7456607971

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26337416

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version