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Maydencroft Manor


  • Address: Maydencroft Ln
  • Vicinity: 650 m (0.4 mi) W of High St, Gosmore
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1509/06/29 King Henry VIII inherits Maydencroft Manor from his grandmother Margaret Tudor. Henry uses it occasionally as a hunting lodge.
1525/00/00 Henry VIII of England Life Henry VIII following of his hawk, leapt over a ditch with a pole and the pole broke, so that if one Edmond Moody, had not leapt into the water and lifted up his head, which was fast in the clay, he had been drowned, but God of his goodness preserved him.
1575/00/00 Maydencroft Manor, E part of N wing, built C16 E wing possibly built as a separate house, united and hall floored over early C17.
1615/00/00 E wall of medieval hall removed and room extended to E with stone floor and Doric column dated 1615 on line of former hall wall.
1675/00/00 Block to W of hall at Maydencroft Manor built in late C17, interior features are from early C18. Early C17 4-lights ovolo moulded mullioned window moved here from kitchen wing on N.

Places

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Barn At Maydencroft Manor
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Data »

Particulars for Maydencroft Manor:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Building Type House
Historic House Plane Open Hall House
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling
Structure Attribute Timber Frame

Data
English National Heritage List: 1347391



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