A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



and granted to Nicholas Harpisfield." Edward 



Joskyn, who was reinstated, seems to have left one 



heiress Elizabeth (see above) and may have left a 



second Katherine, for by line of Hilary term 1+84^-5 



Thomas Grey arid his wife 



Katherine (who were holding 



in her right) conveyed the 



manor to Ralph Josselin and 



others. 27 This seems to have 



been in trust for Robert Fitz 



Herbert, for he died seised 



Hi 



15.* 



His 



He 



who married Denise Elveden, 

 and Uphall then descended 

 with the first half of Gates- 

 bury (q-v.). With Gatesbury 

 it was bought in 1896 by 

 Mr. C. J. Longman. Mr. Longra; 

 fields called the Malm, the Moad, Sibdale, 

 End Pasture, Old Field, Brick Kiln Field/ 

 and Further Tunnocks, Windmill Ley, G. 

 Little Readings and Hoarc's Cross Field/ 



Brauchinc . 



Upp Hall 



Crown d Plan 



the plac 





OMODKRN 



Upp Hall, the reside: 

 situated on high ground about a mile south 

 the village, with which it is connected by a road. 

 A considerable part of the late 1 6th or early 17th- 

 century house still exists, although much added to and 

 modernized. The house is built of the early z-in. 

 bricks, and a brick outside plinth runs round the 

 walls of the old house, appearing inside where modern 

 work has been added, making it possible to obtain an 

 accurate plan of the original house, so much of it, at 

 least, as has survived, as there are clear indications 

 that the principal or west front has been shortened. 

 The old part of the house consists of a long building 

 of the usual two stories with attics, running north and 

 south. At the south end is a wing projecting east- 

 wards, and near the north end is a smaller projection 

 which probably contained the staircase. The old 

 building to the north of this has been swept away, 

 and modern kitchen office; substituted. 



The west front has two steep brick gables, with 

 copings above the roof, and connected at their bases 

 with a parapet ; there are gables, but no parapets, on 

 the south and east fronts. All the windows have 



straight brick drips or hoods over them, and the wide 

 front windows are of sis lights, and have the original 

 o.jk mullions and transoms. The window to the 

 drawing room U partly blocked by the large fireplace, 

 but, as both appear to belong to the same period, the 

 large window was probably inserted for the take of 

 symmetry, as it comes in the centre of a gable. Tke 

 chimneys appear to have been rebuilt. The principal 

 entrance is on the west front, and retains the original 

 door, though the wooden portico is comparative!}' 

 modern. The head of the door is formed by t 

 four-centred arch, the door itself being made of two 

 thicknesses of oak planks, and on the outside arc fixed 

 narrow fillet and cavetto mouldings dividing the door 

 into three vertical panels. Two plain iron strap 

 hinges appear on the outside. 



On entering the house the old hall is on the right. 

 It is still used as a hall, but a modern screen takes 

 of the old one. The fireplace is 10 ft. wide, 

 straight lintel. At the back, adjoining the 

 two small niches, probably made to hold 

 Similar niches in the ingle-nooks may be 

 many old houses and cottages in the county. 

 Beyond the hall is the drawing 

 room, with the library forming 

 the wing at the back. A modern 

 passage, with staircase, has been 

 formed behind the hall. To the 

 left of the entrance is the dining 

 1 v cry good 

 but simple example of a wood 

 chimney-piece of the time of 

 Queen Anne. It is flanked by 

 wide slightly-projecting plain 

 pilasters c.irried up to the ceiling, 

 has a narrower 

 the centre. 

 Idcd cornice at 

 d the pilaster. 

 : dining 

 fireplace of the 

 early 17th-century type. 

 The old gate piers which afforded entrance to the 

 forecourt still stand facing the west entrance door, 

 about 1 1 1 ft. west of the main building. The piers 

 are built of brick, and are square on plan. They have 

 stone cornices finished on the top with large stone 

 balls. The southern inclosure of the forecourt, whether 

 wall or buildings, has disappeared, and the modern 

 avenue comes in on that side, but the inclosing building 

 still remains on the north side. It is a very long and 

 lofty barn of ten bays, built of brick, running east 

 and west, the east end being within 50 ft. of the 

 house itself. There appear at one time to have been 

 two wide doorways with pointed arches on each side, 



but only < 

 original stat 

 part. The 

 number exis 

 inner side. 



On the n 

 building, an 



of those on the south t 



the others being built up in whole or 

 Id window openings, of which a good 

 are mere slits, 8 in. wide, splayed on the 



■rth wall, outside, near the centre of the 

 two curious little aumbries, the use of 

 which has not been satisfactorily explained. One it 

 a plain sinking in the wall, about 13 in. wide and 

 1 ; in. deep, covered with a four-centred arch ; the 



!6 Col. Pat. 14.61-7, p. 356. 



17 Feet of F. Herta. 2 Ric. Ill, no. 4.. 



,s Chun. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), xxx, 95. 



K Bricka from this field are 

 have been used for the foundat 

 Old Hall. 



30 Particulari for lale, 1890. 

 Mr. C J. Longman, 



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