BROADWATER HUNDRED 



corner of the building. The old front entrance 

 door is now used in the doorway to the store adjoining 

 the pantry. To the east of the house is the old 

 garden, which still retains part of the old brick 

 inclosure wall, at one point in which is a small niche 

 with circular arched head of stone. 

 There are traces of coloured ornament 

 in the niche. South of the house is 

 a large tithe barn of nine bays, with 

 weather- boarded sides and tiled roof. 

 It measures externally about 102 ft. 

 by 39 ft. The remains of a moat 

 :, partly surroundi 



LITTLE 

 WYMONDLEY 



the chimneys, and all the windows have been renewed 

 The principal entrance still retains the old door of 

 two thicknesses of oak plants fastened with .ron studs, 

 the right of the entrance, has a 

 place. The old moulded oak beam 



the hoi 



tnd bar 



Beyo 



the moat, to the south-east of the 



house, is the old orchard completely 



encircled by a grove of very old box 



trees, about 20 ft. in height. To the 



north-west of the house is the old 



dove -ho use, now converted into a 



cottage. In a field some few hundred 



yards north-east of the house are the 



remains of the old conduit head, from 



which water was brought to turn the 



spit in the kitchen, being used for that 



purpose until the middle of [he 19th century. The 



conduit head is a small shallow basin sunk below the 



floor of a small building, some of the old floor tiles 



being still in their places. The walls of the building 



have lately been partly rebuilt, but, as no record of the 



old building could be found, the new work was copied 



from another old building elsewhere. The old stone 



doorway with its four-centred arch still remains. 



Wymondley Bury, the residence of Mr. Henry 

 Parkes, stands in a moated inclosure adjoining the 

 south side of the church, a little to the south-east 

 of the village. The moat contains water on the 

 north-west and north-east sides of the house, but 

 has been filled up on the other sides. The prin- 

 cipal, or north-east, front of the house is approached 



\ Little 



Wymondlfv 

 Bury 



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over the ingle-nook is 1 3 ft. 4 in. in length, and the 

 depth of the opening is 5 ft., but its width has now 

 been much reduced by inserting new oak jambs 

 moulded to match the lintel. This room was probably 

 the hall of the old manor-house. Beside the dining 

 room is a small room used as a study, below which is 

 an old cellar, in the walls of which are eight or nine 

 small niches with arched heads formed in brickwork. 

 They are placed from 3 ft. 6 in. to 4 ft. above the 

 floor, and are from 9 in. to 1 1 in. wide and 9 in. in 

 depth. Their average height is about 12 in. They 

 were probably med to hold wine flasks. None of 

 them appear to have had 3 door. There is a very 

 similar series of niches in the cellar at Watton Place. 

 Close to the house on the north is the old brick dove- 

 house which still contains some 300 nests. A little 

 to the south-east of the house stands a fine Spanish 

 chestnut evidently of great age but still flourishing. 

 Gilpin refers to it in his 'Forest Scenery ' about the 

 year 1789. The main trunk is badly split, rendering 

 any measurements misleading. 



The old manor-house of Gre 



Wymondley was pro' ably on the san 



trace of it now remains. It is desci 



with chambers, chapels and rooms annexed,' and v 



called 'Somcrhalle." 



Wymondley House, a square 



is now the residence of Mr. Jan 



From 1799 to 1832 it was used ; 



training young men for the Nomonformis. 



This had been founded by Dr. Doddridge at North 



ampton about 1738. and in 183* was removed to 

 London. 



Little 

 1 but no 



residence, 



.ademy 1 



The 



losurc award is included in that of Gr< 



by 



: over the 



home, which i, probably om> a portion f ,L la, e 

 loth-century house, i, Leaped, and ha, been ranch 

 added ,0 m the , 7 ,h centnr, and modernized both 

 >»ts,de.ad,n„de. All the brick facing, except to 



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Wymondley. 



J'efore the Norman Conouest / ITT! F 



manors wmoxDur - 



Wimarc* 



(Wvmnndolai) „ 

 held by one Aide, of Robe,, pit* 

 liter the Conque., it wa, divided between 

 tm, owner. , h.de >,c,n 8 held in ,„ 86 by William 

 of Robert Gernon,' ,„d a hide and a ,L,er h ™ 



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