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Historic Buildings
The Great Barn, Harmondsworth Grade 1 Listed Building Scheduled Ancient Monument
The Great Barn is simply an amazing building. It is one of few buildings in the UK to be classified as a Scheduled Ancient Monument by English Heritage, and we are lucky to have it so near.
Measures 192 feet in length; 38 feet wide and 37 feet in height. It is the last of the Cathedral type barns to be built. The barn was built - circa 1426 and may have been built on the site of an older barn.
The Manor of Harmondsworth was purhased by William of Wykeham, the Bishop of Winchester, in 1391 and the revenues from the Manor were used to support his colleges in Winchester and Oxford. The Manor remianed in the hands
of the Winchester Diocese until it was taken by Henry VIII to add to his hunting ground established from Hampton Court.. There is no evidence he ever used it as such, for shortly afterwards he transferred it to the Paget family in where it remained until 1869.
The Gatehouse, Church Road, West Drayton
Grade 11* Listed Building
The Tudor Gatehouse, circa 1550, along with the walls fronting the houses in Church Road is all that is left of the Manor House that occupied the site. Sir William Paget was Lord of the Manor from 1546 until 1563. In 1587 Elizabeth 1 sequestrated the estate and granted it to Sir Christopher Hatton.
In 1597 The Manor was granted by Elizabeth to Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon. In October 1602 he entertained the Queen at the Manor House. In 1610 the Manor was restored to the Pagets and during the Cromwell period became a Royalist outpost with troops being quartered in the barracks in the grounds of the house. The house was demolished in 1750, the reason is not known. There is no picture of the house, but there is a detailed inventory of the rooms (approx 50) and furnishings along with a plan of the house and garden area. There was another gatehouse, but the whereabouts is not known. The wall to the estate was at least 1/2 mile in total length.
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