Description

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TL 86 NE
1/13

GREAT BARTON
LIVERMERE ROAD
Howerdley Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Charity Farmhouse)

II
Farmhouse. C16. Two storeys: three-cell lobby-entrance form. Timber-framed and rendered. Thatched roof, hipped at the south end and gabled on the north. An external stack on the south gable wall. Mainly C19 three-light casement windows, with some C20 additions. Entrance door within a C20 enclosed porch, gabled and thatched. Along the rear wall, a C19 one-and-a-half storey brick and flint lean-to.

This farmhouse, at one time divided into three cottages, farms the land relating to the charity set up under the will of William Howardly, a former parish priest (d.1492). He left 40 marks, and the residue of his estate, to be laid out in land, the profit to be given to the repair of the parish church and the relief of the parish poor.

Listing NGR: TL8885968019

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489350

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)