Description

TL 4352 HAUXTON CHURCH ROAD
(North Side)

15/141 No.32 (Little Manor
House)

II
House, late C16 and early C17 with C20 additions at rear.
Timber frame, exposed, on brick and clunch plinth, with rendered
infill and plain tiled, gable roofs. Large red brick ridge
stack with moulded upper edge and four rebuilt shafts. Two
ranges forming a hall and crossing plan. Crosswing, late C16,
of two storeys with the first floor jettied and carried on
shaped brackets. The jetty was underbuilt with timber framing
probably early in C18. The framing in this wing is of close
studding and has curved downward bracing at first floor. The
crosswing is of two bays and part of a third bay. Two storeys.
Two C20 windows to gable end, but two original window openings
now blocked in the side wall. Hall range, C17, has framing of
slender scantling, wide spacing and straight bracing. The
ground floor front wall has been replaced in brick. The two
windows and the porch are C20. Interior: Crosswing was
probably a parlour range to a hall which was rebuilt in C17.
Only a little of the framing is visible internally. The main
beam of the ceiling has ovolo moulding but the joists are
concealed by original plaster. There is an inglenook hearth of
dressed clunch and the initial W is carved on the right hand
jamb. The roof is of original clasped, side purlin
construction. The hall has a brick and clunch inglenook hearth
abutting that of the parlour with small spice and salt
recesses. The upper edge of the bressumer over the inglenook
has peg holes possibly for the original timber frame stack. The
main beam has double cyma moulding and only one leaf stop
possibly suggesting that the main beam has been reused. Part of
the panelling from an early C17 screen originally at Mill
Farmhouse, Hauxton (now demolished) has been reused in two doors
in this room. The chamber above has an original early C17
carved mantel, probably of clunch to a small fireplace, now
sealed. The ceiling in this room is probably C19 or C20 because
in the roof there is evidence of lathes and plaster to the
soffit of the collars and rafters indicating the original
ceiling. The roof is of butt purlin construction in line, with
the common rafters tenoned to the purlins.
R.C.H.M.: record card

Listing NGR: TL4380452155

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616018

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