. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. EDWINSTREE HUNDRED was apparently standing in 1602. A free school existed in the parish before 1700.' Beyond the church Willow Lane, styled in the 15th century Willow Street,^ leads in a south-easterly direction towards Mincingbury manor-house. It meets the Bogmoor Road at the hamlet of Shaftenhoe End, called in the i 3 th century ' Scarpenho.' ^ Here a few cottages dating from the early part of the 17th century are clustered about the Big House or Free- man's, built about 1624 and said to be the manor- house of ' Burnels.' It
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. EDWINSTREE HUNDRED was apparently standing in 1602. A free school existed in the parish before 1700.' Beyond the church Willow Lane, styled in the 15th century Willow Street,^ leads in a south-easterly direction towards Mincingbury manor-house. It meets the Bogmoor Road at the hamlet of Shaftenhoe End, called in the i 3 th century ' Scarpenho.' ^ Here a few cottages dating from the early part of the 17th century are clustered about the Big House or Free- man's, built about 1624 and said to be the manor- house of ' Burnels.' It is a timber-framed building covered with plaster and stands on foundations of thin bricks ; the roofs are tiled. The house is of two stories with attics and is F-shaped on plan ; the main building runs east and west and measures about 5 3 ft. by 19 ft. 6 in. On the south side at its eastern end is a wing with a brick chimney at the south end ; in the centre of the south side is a small projecting stair- case wing of two stories. The hall, which occupied a large part of the main building, is now divided into rooms, but the wide fireplace remains with carved wood lintel and bracketed shelf, also a little 17th- century panelling. The ceiling joists have moulded edges. The exterior of the house on the east, north and west fronts has been modernized and the central chimney on the main block rebuilt. At the end of the south wing is a chimney built of 2-in. bricks, the sloping offsets of which are masked by bricks crow- stepped, in a manner similar to many other chimneys in Hertfordshire ; the chimney stack has two square shafts set diagonally. The staircase projection on the south side has a single window under a projecting gable with a moulded beam supported at either end by a carved wood bracket representing a satyr playing on a long pipe ; between the window and the pro- jecting beam above is the following inscription carved in raised letters :— ' So God may still me blesse I ca
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