Description

TL 3244
15/47

BASSINGBOURN-CUM-KNEESWORTH
NORTH END (east side)
No 10 (Manor Farmhouse)

22.11.67

GV
II
House, formerly a farmhouse. Early C18 with early and late C19 alterations and additions, C20 renovation and addition. Red brick with rear timber-framed and plastered, and gault brick. Plain tiled and slated roofs. Two storeys with attic main range and two storey rear wing forming L-plan. Five symmetrical bays with parapet gables and end stacks. Stack to left hand and gable wall partly rebuilt, stack to right hand panelled with cornice. Band between floors and plinth. Moulded wooden eaves cornice with dentil enrichment. Fluted pilasters to wooden doorcase with Doric entablature, rectangular fanlight and recessed glazed six-panelled door. Four ground floor and five first floor flush-framed twelve-paned hung sash windows in gauged red brick arches. Three hipped dormer windows with horizontal sliding sashes.

Interior: entrance hall with paved stone flags. Partition of C17 panelling resited. The chimney stack and doorcase are similar to Tan House, South End, Bassingbourn-cum-Kneesworth.

RCHM Report 1950, Sale Catalogue 1977

Listing NGR: TL3308044032

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26615795

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  For the Record
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)