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Manor Farmhouse (II) is a former farmhouse, part terminates the view down the lane. To the front of College
of a cluster found at this end of the village (Chestnut Farm Cottage, by the road junction, lies a former outbuilding,
lies outside the conservation area, and there is also reference of indeterminate age, and a garage. These small scale
to Brook Farm on historic maps which may refer to buildings add to the cluster of interesting roof planes.
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Turnfield House). Manor Farmhouse now sits adjacent to The 17 century Rising Sun Public House (II) plays
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the development at Farm Close. It is late 16 century in a prominent role in the street scene due in part to the road
date, timberframed, with white painted render, and a low widening slightly to the front of it. The pub sits in an area
tile roof, punctuated by three small dormers. A part catslide of open space with no defined front boundary. The thatched
remains to the front roof plane and the building plays a key roof has a timber framed half hipped gable to the left hand
role in the street scene. side, a thatched eaves dormer to the right. The pattern of
Immediately north lies The Old Bakehouse (II), timber framing in the gable indicates an alteration in the
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dating from the 18 century. The principal façade of roof height at some time. The building has more complex
colourwashed brick faces Worminghall Road, and is roof arrangement than many vernacular cottages in the
concealed from the street scene due to boundary hedging. vicinity.
Architecturally it tends to the “polite” rather than the North of the public house, Little Gratton is a 19 th
vernacular, with regularly spaced window openings century rubblestone cottage, rendered, under a thatched
symmetrical around the front entrance. The roof is of tile, roof. The upper floor windows lie below the thatch line.
with three chimneys. The building is accessed from the back The original range is aligned gable end to road, creating a
lane where later extensions have altered the original plan. visual break in the pattern of alignment. The principal
A weatherboarded outbuilding lies to the rear of the house elevation has a symmetrical fenestration pattern. A
and forms the final side of a small yard. It is important for subsidiary outshot is also rendered, but has a tiled roof.
the setting of the main house. Set back from the lane The cottage was extended along the roadside in the 1920s
between The Old Bake House and College Cottage are two in matching thatch and render.
white painted bungalows. Beyond Lock Gate Cottage, a modern dwelling of one
No 34 Worminghall Road (II) is particularly and a half storeys, the listed HolyWell Cottage (II) is
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picturesque. The 17 century part is a tiny one and a half somewhat screened from the road by vegetation. This has a
storey thatched cottage, originally built on a piece of simple two bay form with a thatched outshot to the right
common land or roadside. It has two eaves-cut dormers, hand side. Chimney stacks to either gable enliven the roof
and wide casement windows to the ground floor. It is linked pattern. Immediately adjacent and hard to the roadside lies
to a white rendered Edwardian house, with bay windows Priory Cottage, with a cross wing gable to the road. The
symmetrical around the front door. This pleasing main ridge is aligned to the carriageway and the house has
juxtaposition of styles and materials makes the building a weatherboarded outshot, the whole under a steeply
unique in the street scene, and it forms an important pitched tiled roof.
grouping with the adjacent public house. The conservation area does not extend as far as the
A closely-tied group, accessed off the lane opposite the village boundary, but the remaining four houses to the north
public house, are College Cottage, The Old Smithy and continue the scale and alignment of the built edge, being
No 33. close to the road side. Roof heights are articulated by either
College Cottage (II) is one of the older buildings in dormers or half hipped gables which reduces the bulk of
the village, with remnants of a medieval cruck construction, the roof line.
although the building was altered in the 17 century. It has
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a single span steeply thatched roof with dormers cut into Bridge Road/Sheldon Road Area
it. Two chimney stacks punctuate the roof. This building
dominates the setting of the back lane by virtue of its relative A further enclave of historical buildings, both listed and
height compared to its neighbours. The materials used tie of local note, are located around the junction of Bridge
closely to the other two thatched and white painted Road and Sheldon Road. The houses here are a result
buildings in this grouping, (The Old Smithy, No 33) of unplanned and haphazard building episodes, probably
although these have both had later extensions with tiled on land carved out of “wastes”, small plots along the
roofs. No 33 (II) is aligned with College Cottage and the roadside. The exception appears to have been Bridge
tiled roofs to either side of the older thatched central section Lodge which at one time had substantial grounds than ran as
add a dynamism to the roofscape in this grouping when far south as the group of listed buildings accessed off Bridge
viewed from the main road. The Old Smithy (II) Road. The area is characterised by tight plot forms, with

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