Description

SX 86 SW LITTLEHEMPSTON

5/49 Hampstead Manor (formerly
listed as Hampstead)
9.2.61

- II*

House, formerly a farmhouse. C16 north wing with circa late C16/early Cl7 south
wing. Stone rubble. Slate roof with gabled and half-hipped ends. Two storeys.
Four window range. Various casements. Moulded doorframe at centre to cross-
passage with moulded panelled door. Similar moulded doorframe at rear of
cross-passage. Cross-wing at south end has roof with half-hipped end at front
and at rear gabled with two large window openings on ground and first floors
with large ovolo moulded lintels. Ground floor has three-light ovolo moulded
wooden mullion window. On either side of cross-wing a stone external chimney
stack with set-offs. Another rendered chimney stack at north gable end. Circa
early C19 outbuilding at south end, now part of house. Interior: north wing has
jointed cruck trusses. Cross-passage has plank and muntin screens with bead
moulding to muntins. Heavy moulded wooden doorframe from cross-passage with
baluster-shaped carved stops. Similar doorframe above on first floor. At north
end open fireplace with massive wooden bressummer and oven, framed open-well
staircase with chamfered handrail, square newels with moulded tops, wide
unmoulded closed string, and square chamfered balusters. Cross-wing has large
unchamfered ceiling beams supported on wooden corbels on braces. First floor
room above has fireplace with moulded bressummer. In the roof of the cross-wing
there is said to be date 1647 and arms of the Earls of Arundel.

Listing NGR: SX8042561624

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534483

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Old House Care and Repair