Barhams Manor

Heritage listing

Details HIGHAM THE GREEN TM 03 NW (east side) 3/12 Barhams Manor 22.2.55 (formerly listed as Green Farmhouse) GV II House. Front range c.1500 with C16 and later additions to rear,remodelled late C18. C19 rear service range. Timber-framed, rendered, with C19 section in red brick in Flemish bond. Stacks white brick to front range, otherwise red. Plain tile roofs except slate to front pitch of main range. Front range originally formed open hall with cross wings, original through passage to right with later stack inserted can still be traced. Two added lower cross wings to rear, that to right linked with Cl9 service block by single-storey brick porch. Two storeys, front range 7 bays arranged 2.1.1.1.2, centre and outer bays break forward slightly. Central Doric porch with 6-panel door in architrave. Tripartite bows with sashes with glazing bars to outer bays, otherwise slightly recessed 12-pane sashes with sills. Mutule cornice. Central pediment. Roof hipped over outer bays. Similar bow window and other detailing to right return. Gabled rear wings, that to right has C19 canted bay with sashes with arched upper panes. Above a 3-light casement flanked by ovolo mullion side lights. Steeply pitched swept roofs. Single- storey painted brick porch with 6-panel door in pilastered doorcase links with rear service range /grain store which retains some original openings under cambered gauged arches, garden front has one original entrance but otherwise blank except for 2 C20 upper windows. Interior: entrance hall oval on plan with round arches to stairhall and front rooms. Stairhall remodelled 1930s, with staircase balustrade of that date. Large C16 chamfered beam with step stop relating to flooring over of hall. Section of open truss exposed above, chamfered cambered tie beam with la

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.