Description

TL 3243 BASSINGBOURN-CUM-KNEESWORTH SOUTH END
(East Side)
20/76
Barns, coach house,
25.11.85 bakehouse and
maltings c.5 metres
south of No. 29
(South End House)

GV II

Barns, coach house, bakehouse and maltings incorporating an original wool hall
or similar building. Circa 1500 with early C17 alterations, additions c.1700
and 1800 (dated tie beam) and later partly altered in c.1810. Plastered and
weather boarded timber frame with c.1700 red brick and painted brick walls.
Plain tiled and slated roofs. Ridge stack to main range. Two storeys; main
north-south range formerly a wool hall, partly altered in early C17 to a
bakehouse with an external staircase on the east side; at right angles, two
parallel barns originally floored, the earlier barn to the south dated
'W WALTERS 1800' on a tie beam, the barn and coach house to the north encloses
a square planned malting kiln of c.1700 with an associated lean to in the
north-east angle and the remains of the heating chamber and flues.
North elevation: Coach house and barn weather boarded and painted white with
two entrances, each with double boarded doors shaped to eliptical headed
arches. Boarded doors to right hand lean to with a brick projection formerly
a heating chamber with reduced stack. Staircase to main range recessed behind
entrance to kitchen and enclosed on the east side by a timber framed wall.
Interior; Main range of five bays with braced tie beams, mullioned first floor
window and evidence of other windows, chamfered main beams to floor frames,
large inserted cooking hearth in north bay with baking ovens; south-east barn
of four bays with king-post roof, original floor and boarded door to first
floor entrance to malting kiln; malting kiln with plastered' floor and
plastered bases of dismantled cone; C19 roof. These buildings survived the
arson attack of 1849 by discontented farm labourers, they were formerly part
of Clear farm.

VCH Vol VIII D.22

Listing NGR: TL3322643645

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595715

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)